A/72/53/Add.1 teams, relevant special procedures and other stakeholders, including, where applicable, those involved in technical cooperation projects that demonstrate best practices, constructive engagement and positive impact on the ground with a view to ensuring their participation in the thematic panel discussion; 13. Calls upon States, relevant international organizations, intergovernmental bodies and civil society to make use of the ideas and issues raised in the annual panel discussion under agenda item 10 during its thirty-eighth session to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and policy coherence of technical cooperation and capacity-building efforts undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner and United Nations country teams and agencies in improving States’ national capacities to promote and protect human rights and support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. 42nd meeting 29 September 2017 [Adopted without a vote.] 36/29. Promoting international cooperation to support national human rights follow-up systems, processes and related mechanisms, and their contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling General Assembly resolutions 48/141 of 20 December 1993, 60/251 of 15 March 2006 and 65/281 of 17 June 2011 and Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1 of 18 June 2007, 16/21 of 25 March 2011 and 30/25 of 2 October 2015, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, in which the Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Recognizing that the 2030 Agenda and its Goals and targets are integrated and indivisible, balance the three dimensions of sustainable development and seek to realize all human rights of all, Reaffirming its commitment to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna on 25 June 1993, Emphasizing the responsibilities of all States, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations, to respect, protect and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability or other status, Recalling that one of the purposes of the United Nations enshrined in the Charter is to achieve international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights, Recognizing that the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights is essential for the full achievement of the purposes of the United Nations, including the effective promotion and protection of all human rights, Considering that international cooperation, in conformity with the purposes and principles set out in the Charter and international law, provide an effective and practical contribution to preventing violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, Affirming that technical cooperation, provided in consultation with, and with the consent of, the States concerned, should be an inclusive exercise that engages and involves all national stakeholders, including government agencies, national human rights institutions and civil society, at all stages, Recognizing the important, valuable and mutually reinforcing role and contribution of all human rights mechanisms of international and regional human rights systems in the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, GE.17-18194 79

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