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by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other
relevant actors;
3.
Supports the realization of the mandate of the Working Group, as
renewed by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 9/3 of 24 September 2008, 13
with the recognition that the Working Group will convene annual sessions of five
working days and submit its reports to the Council;
Emphasizes the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution
4.
60/251 of 15 March 2006 establishing the Human Rights Council, and in this regard
calls upon the Council to implement the agreement to continue to act to ensure that
its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and the achievement of
the Millennium Development Goals, and also in this regard to lead to raising the
right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action,3 to the same level as and on a par with all other human
rights and fundamental freedoms;
5.
Notes the efforts under way within the framework of the Working Group
with a view to completing the tasks entrusted to it by the Human Rights Council in
its resolution 4/4,11 and reaffirms the conclusions and recommendations of the
Working Group agreed upon at its eleventh session; 14
6.
Also notes the work of the high-level task force on the implementation of
the right to development, the mandate of which ended in 2010, including its
consolidation of findings and the list of right-to-development criteria and
corresponding operational sub-criteria; 15
7.
Recalls that the Working Group will consider at its twelfth session the
two compilations of views received from Governments, groups of Governments and
regional groups, and from other stakeholders on the work of the high-level task
force;
Stresses that it is important that the views requested of Member States
8.
and relevant stakeholders on the work of the high-level task force and the way
forward take into consideration the essential features of the right to development,
using as a reference the Declaration on the Right to Development and resolutions on
the right to development of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights
Council and the General Assembly;
Also stresses that the above-mentioned compilations of views, criteria
9.
and corresponding operational sub-criteria, once considered, revised and endorsed
by the Working Group, should be used, as appropriate, in the elaboration of a
comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the right to
development;
10. Emphasizes the importance of the Working Group taking appropriate
steps to ensure respect for and practical application of the above-mentioned
standards, which could take various forms, including the elaboration of 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;
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13
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/63/53/Add.1), chap. I.
14
See A/HRC/15/23, paras. 41–47.
15
See A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2 and Corr.1 and Add.1/Corr.1 and Add.2.
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