A/HRC/12/28 page 6 16. The work of the task force had been greatly facilitated by the high quality of new expert members, although the task force could benefit from more assiduous participation by some of the institutional members. The Group of Twenty (G20) Summit had taken place in London at the time of the April 2009 session of the task force, just as the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development was taking place in New York during the present session of the Working Group. While growth, stability, openness of markets, trade flows, debt sustainability, private capital flows and aid were of major importance to the right to development, neither of these events appeared to attach the same importance to the core values of the right to development as the Working Group. Mr. Marks welcomed the participation of the High Commissioner in the World Conference and expressed the hope that the Conference would consider the impact of the economic downturn on human rights and the right to development. 17. As regards the first part of the report of the task force dealing with the assessment of partnerships, the Chairperson explained the methodology used in its assessment process, the lessons learned from partnerships reviewed and how that review served in the refinement of the criteria. The task force was currently dealing with 11 partnerships, 4 dealing with aid and trade with which it had had a dialogue over several years; 3 dealing with access to medicines and transfer of technology in the health field with which a dialogue had been established this year; and 4 concerned with transfer of technology relating to climate change and intellectual property, as well as debt relief and regional trade, with which it was planning to engage pursuant to the Working Group’s request at its last session. He was particularly impressed with the openness and receptiveness of the health-related partnerships during missions by the task force and consultants and the quality of the input from the institutions responsible for the Cotonou Agreement and debt relief during the last session of the task force. 18. He concluded by mentioning the activities the task force envisaged in the coming months with regard to the Development Agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Climate Change Conference and MERCOSUR, and underlined the importance of cooperation with those institutions so that the task force could extend its study and criteria to the components of Millennium Development Goal 8 that had not yet been covered, as requested by the Human Rights Council. 1. Global partnerships 19. During the general discussion on the report of the task force, the representative of Cuba (on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement) welcomed the continued review of the existing global partnerships and the review of new partnerships, while pointing out that the focus of the review should shift from evaluating their compliance with the criteria towards learning lessons for the improvement of the criteria. The revised criteria contained in the report continued to focus on the national dimension of the right to development. Since the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development in 1986, adequate attention had not been given to its international dimension. Human rights mainstreaming was not the objective of the right to development; it was rather to enhance national capacity in terms of resources to ensure the enjoyment of all human rights. The right to development belonged to both individuals and peoples.