A/72/53/Add.1 Reiterating the importance and added value of technical assistance and capacitybuilding provided in consultation with, and with the consent of, the States concerned to ensure follow-up to and the effective implementation of their respective international human rights obligations and commitments, Recognizing that the promotion and protection of human rights should be based on the principles of cooperation and genuine dialogue in all relevant forums, including in the context of the universal periodic review, and be aimed at strengthening the capacity of States to implement their respective human rights obligations and commitments, Recognizing also the important and constructive role played by parliaments, national human rights institutions, civil society and other relevant stakeholders in the universal periodic review mechanism, and encouraging their continued and unhindered participation in and contribution to national human rights follow-up systems and processes, Recognizing further that States, with the support from the United Nations system, have increasingly adopted comprehensive and permanent approaches to reporting to the international human rights system and to implementing recommendations through, for instance, the establishment or strengthening of national human rights follow-up systems and processes, including, as appropriate, national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up, Underlining that such mechanisms can facilitate the task of clustering and prioritizing recommendations and of mainstreaming them into national human rights action plans, policies and working programmes, as appropriate, thus contributing to preventing the recurrence of human rights violations, Affirming that this holistic approach to all human rights recommendations can contribute to a better alignment of human rights and sustainable development efforts at the national level, Acknowledging the important work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in continuously updating the Universal Human Rights Index, clustering human rights recommendations and developing methodologies to identify, where applicable, synergies among human rights recommendations and the Sustainable Development Goals, Noting that the 2030 Agenda is guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter, including full respect for international law, that it is grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties, the Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, that it is informed by other instruments, such as the Declaration on the Right to Development, and that it is to be implemented in a manner that is consistent with the rights and obligations of States under international law, Welcoming the technical assistance and capacity-building provided by the Office of the High Commissioner and by the United Nations Development Programme, through United Nations Resident Coordinators and United Nations country teams, in consultation with, and with the consent of, the States concerned, particularly with a view to supporting the establishment or the strengthening of national human rights follow-up systems and processes, including, as appropriate, national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up, Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 6/17 of 28 September 2008, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to establish a universal periodic review voluntary trust fund to facilitate the participation of developing countries, particularly least developing countries, in the universal periodic review mechanism, and to establish the voluntary fund for financial and technical assistance, to be administered jointly with the universal periodic review voluntary trust fund, in order to provide, in conjunction with multilateral funding mechanisms, a source of financial and technical assistance to help countries to implement recommendations emanating from the universal periodic review in consultation with, and with the consent of, the States concerned, Recalling also the beginning of the third universal periodic review cycle, during which all States Members of the United Nations will undergo a review of their fulfilment of their human rights obligations and commitments, 80 GE.17-18194