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countries to build on the progress achieved in ensuring that official development
assistance is used effectively to help to meet development goals and targets;
25. Recognizes the need to address market access for developing countries,
including in the sectors of agriculture, services and non-agricultural products, in
particular those of interest to developing countries;
26. Calls once again for the implementation of a desirable pace of
meaningful trade liberalization, including in areas under negotiation in the World
Trade Organization, the implementation of commitments on implementation-related
issues and concerns, a review of special and differential treatment provisions, with a
view to strengthening them and making them more precise, effective and
operational, the avoidance of new forms of protectionism, and capacity-building and
technical assistance for developing countries as important issues in making progress
towards the effective implementation of the right to development;
27. Recognizes the important link between the international economic,
commercial and financial spheres and the realization of the right to development,
stresses in this regard the need for good governance and for broadening the base of
decision-making at the international level on issues of development concern and the
need to fill organizational gaps, as well as to strengthen the United Nations system
and other multilateral institutions, and also stresses the need to broaden and
strengthen the participation of developing countries and countries with economies in
transition in international economic decision-making and norm-setting;
28. Also recognizes that good governance and the rule of law at the national
level assist all States in the promotion and protection of human rights, including the
right to development, and agrees on the value of the ongoing efforts being made by
States to identify and strengthen good governance practices, including transparent,
responsible, accountable and participatory government, that are responsive and
appropriate to their needs and aspirations, including in the context of agreed
partnership approaches to development, capacity-building and technical assistance;
29. Further recognizes the important role and the rights of women and the
application of a gender perspective as a cross-cutting issue in the process of
realizing the right to development, and notes in particular the positive relationship
between the education of women and their equal participation in the civil, cultural,
economic, political and social activities of the community and the promotion of the
right to development;
30. Stresses the need for the integration of the rights of children, girls and
boys alike, in all policies and programmes and for ensuring the promotion and
protection of those rights, especially in areas relating to health, education and the
full development of their capacities;
31. Recalls the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our
Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS, adopted on 10 June 2011 at the high-level
meeting of the General Assembly on HIV and AIDS, 18 stresses that further and
additional measures must be taken at the national and international levels to fight
HIV and AIDS and other communicable diseases, taking into account ongoing
efforts and programmes, and reiterates the need for international assistance in this
regard;
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