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of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the right
to development;
8.
Emphasizes the importance that, upon completion of the three phases of
the road map, the Working Group take appropriate steps to ensure respect for and
practical application of these standards, which could take various forms, including
guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and evolve into a
basis for consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature,
through a collaborative process of engagement;
Stresses the importance of the core principles contained in the
9.
conclusions of the Working Group at its third session, 12 congruent with the purpose
of international human rights instruments, such as equality, non-discrimination,
accountability, participation and international cooperation, as critical to
mainstreaming the right to development at the national and international levels, and
underlines the importance of the principles of equity and transparency;
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10. Also stresses that it is important that the high-level task force and the
Working Group, in the discharge of their mandates, take into account the need:
(a) To promote the democratization of the system of international
governance in order to increase the effective participation of developing countries in
international decision-making;
(b) To also promote effective partnerships such as the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development10 and other similar initiatives with the developing countries,
particularly the least developed countries, for the purpose of the realization of their
right to development, including the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals;
(c) To strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and realization of the
right to development at the international level, while urging all States to undertake
at the national level the necessary policy formulation and to institute the measures
required for the implementation of the right to development as an integral part of
fundamental human rights, and also urging all States to expand and deepen mutually
beneficial cooperation in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to
development in the context of promoting effective international cooperation for the
realization of the right to development, bearing in mind that lasting progress
towards the implementation of the right to development requires effective
development policies at the national level and a favourable economic environment
at the international level;
(d) To consider ways and means to continue to ensure the operationalization
of the right to development as a priority;
(e) To mainstream the right to development in the policies and operational
activities of the United Nations and the specialized agencies, programmes and
funds, as well as in policies and strategies of the international financial and
multilateral trading systems, taking into account in this regard that the core
principles of the international economic, commercial and financial spheres, such as
equity, non-discrimination, transparency, accountability, participation and
international cooperation, including effective partnerships for development, are
indispensable in achieving the right to development and preventing discriminatory
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See E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1, sect. VIII.A.