A/HRC/19/52 provided a good reference point, though there were some overlaps and further points need to be elaborated. Turkey spoke on the challenges posed by globalization which required more international cooperation and noted the relevance of the right to development to follow-up to the 4th United Nations Conference on LDCs held in Istanbul in May 2011. 16. The Indian Council of South America and several supporting NGOs representing peoples and indigenous peoples highlighted the importance of the inclusion of selfdetermination in operationalizing the right to development. There could never be universality, interdependence without inclusion and application of self-determination as it applied to peoples, including to indigenous peoples as individuals of a collective who had the right to govern. Indigenous peoples should not be locked into a traditional exercise of their rights that denies their right to development as peoples; indigenous peoples found themselves locked in existing human rights mechanisms taking a limited view of selfdetermination. The intergovernmental process on the right to development was not conducive to civil society participation; peoples and indigenous peoples vested with the right to self-determination must have a higher level of participation and it should be inclusive, involving non-Economic and Social Council NGOs and all peoples. New Humanity stressed that the crucial point in promoting development was to maintain a vision open to the wider meaning of development and to make the human person the owner of this right. They supported an operative and open dialogue on right to development. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation welcomed the fact that the Working Group was substantially dealing with the work of the task force. The Foundation had engaged actively in this anniversary year, starting with a symposium in Berlin, supporting a briefing for treaty bodies and special procedures, and a side event on a reality-check on right to development during this Working Group session. The International Centre for Trade and Development stated that economic austerity and the general state of poverty and limited resources of the public sector led us to redefine development. Dignity International believes that the anniversary was an important marker for all to reflect, learn and take new actions. The right to development was a moral and authoritative political instrument because it was centred on the principle of sustainability and human rights-based approach to development. It sought to analyse inequalities which lay at the heart of development problems and redressed discriminatory practices and unjust distributions of power that impeded development. B. Review of progress in the implementation of the right to development 17. Craig Mokhiber, Chief, Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch, OHCHR, presented an update of activities and events related to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development. OHCHR, in consultation with Member States and other relevant stakeholders, embarked in early 2011 on a far-reaching programme for the commemoration of the anniversary pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 15/25 and General Assembly resolution 65/219. A number of landmark developments and pioneering initiatives emerged: a joint statement by nine human rights treaty bodies stressing the importance of the right to development to their work; a joint statement endorsed by 17 United Nations bodies, system agencies and other international organizations on the need for policy coherence in the implementation of the right to development and global partnership for development; and the Economic and Social Council coordination segment of its substantive session devoted to considering the right to development in relation to the global partnership for development. At Headquarters in New York, the High Commissioner chaired a special event on 8 November 2011 which was addressed by the Secretary-General, the President of the General Assembly and the Chairpersons of the First, Second and Third Committees of the General Assembly. They all stressed the importance of policy coherence in the implementation of the right to development and global partnership for development founded on the three pillars of the 7