A/HRC/33/45 show its solidarity to achieve common goals, including those in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The right to development was central to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, to which the international community should pay particular attention. All human rights were interrelated and interdependent. At the same time, the realization of the right to development faced many challenges and obstacles, including the political impasse within the Working Group. While States had the primary responsibility to ensure development and favourable conditions, and the duty to take steps to achieve the full realization of the right to development, appropriate means were required to foster comprehensive development and international cooperation. The Movement noted that the ongoing review of the draft right to development criteria and operational sub-criteria should move towards a legally binding instrument to make the right to development a reality for all. 9. The European Union strongly supported sustainable development and eradicating poverty. To achieve these goals, gender equality, accountability, equitable globalization and good governance were required. Development strategies should treat individuals as central, and realize civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights. This would entail a mix of policies, although any development policy should make the individual the main participant. States should act individually and collectively to realize the right to development so that individuals also realized their right to development. It hoped that time would be used well during the session to move the Group’s discussions tangibly forward, including the discussions on the report of the Chair-Rapporteur, in order to reach a positive and consensual outcome. This would mean going beyond politics and focusing on the things that united the international community rather than those that divided it. 10. Speaking on behalf of the African Group and aligning itself with the Non-Aligned Movement, South Africa stated that, since the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in 1993, the recognition of the right to development could no longer be in doubt. Article 22 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights was testimony to the transcendence of the right beyond the realm of soft international human rights law. The principles of the right to development were a central requirement in the continental economic and social renewal and development paradigm of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development. One of the most persistent accountability deficits had, however, been at the international level in relation to the commitments to the global partnership for development. A strengthened and revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, as envisaged under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, was thus crucial. These points on accountability should be framed by the principles of the right to development as enshrined in the Declaration on the Right to Development. Furthermore, the phenomenon of globalization and its negative impact on the economies of developing countries had brought about disparities in the equitable sharing of the benefits of globalization. The Group of African States emphasized that issues such as trade and trade liberalisation, transfer of technology, infrastructure development and market access had to be managed effectively in order to mitigate the challenges of poverty and underdevelopment, to realize the Millennium Development Goals still to be reached, and to make the right to development and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a reality for everyone. As the international community commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, it was time to move forward with a sense of urgency. Indeed, the timely adoption of the 2030 Agenda offered the international community the opportunity to recommit itself. The convening of a high-level segment at the seventy-first session of General Assembly on the right to development would mark a milestone. The 2030 Agenda was explicit about what was required for the realization of the right to development in the areas of education and health, and with regard to finance, technology development and transfer and other support. There was an urgent need for the 5