A/HRC/19/45 The food, fuel and financial crises are undermining the right to development. We are responding by making comprehensive, sustainable development the UN‟s top priority. Next year‟s Rio+20 Conference is our chance to define a path to the future we want. Excellencies, Senegalese justice Keba M‟Baye was a champion of the Right to Development. He said: “To develop is to improve human life.” And to that end, he called for more than economic development … more than technological progress … more than material wealth. He called for “development of the mind.” He said, “Development of thought must go hand-in-hand with technological development… because the two activities sustain each other.” Today we need more than a meeting – we need a meeting of the minds. To realize the inalienable right to development – for all. Thank you. 21