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32.
Following adoption of the conclusions and recommendations, Egypt (on behalf of
the Non-Aligned Movement), expressed regret that the Working Group was unable to agree
on language which would have referred to the mandate of the Working Group and the
Declaration on the Right to Development as a basis for assessing the right to development
criteria and operational sub-criteria. The Non-Aligned Movement was committed to move
this process forward and underlined the importance of mutual responsibility and
accountability in a time of multiple crises. The Non-Aligned Movement recalled that the
right to development criteria and operational sub-criteria, once revised and endorsed,
should be used in the elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the
implementation of the right to development, as a basis for a legally binding instrument, in
line with the road-map adopted by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/4 and
subsequent resolutions, most recently Council resolution 18/26. The Non-Aligned
Movement expressed support for a call for the full integration of the multidimensional
aspects of the right to development as elaborated in the Declaration on the Right to
Development into all areas of the work of the United Nations system and international
financial and trade institutions as well as in its major processes such as the follow-up to the
Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC IV),
UNCTAD-XIII, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 20-22, 2012 (Rio+20), the Quadrennial Comprehensive
Policy Review and United Nations development agenda beyond 2015.
33.
The European Union expressed the view that it was important that the process of
refining and revising the right to development criteria and sub-criteria should continue to
take into consideration all relevant documents, not be limited to the Declaration on the
Right to Development.
34.
Senegal (on behalf of the African Group), while extending its thanks to the
delegations for the consensus reached on the conclusions and the recommendations,
considered however that such conclusions and recommendations were weak and expressed
its hope that they would nevertheless help to move forward the process on the criteria and
operational sub-criteria, with the ultimate outcome being the implementation of the right to
development.
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