Ms. Mona Zulficar - Member of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council Thank you Madam Chair, and for your swift leadership of this forum. I know Gay McDougall is not here, and I already thanked her. But I wish to put on the record also my appreciation of the very important work that she has presented as well. We have all agreed by consensus that inclusive and quality education is not only a human rights but is a condition president for the effective enjoyment and exercise of all other human rights. I would like to add that at a time of global financial and economic crisis which is unprecedented, it is always important to remember that inclusive and quality education is also an engine for development, for social cohesion, stability and security of individuals and communities. So the priority given to inclusive and quality education should not be impaired by the global financial crisis when resources are scarce and conflicts are much easier to occurs, conflicts of interests. We have also reached consensus that we would like there recommendations to be output oriented and action oriented in order to help re-enforce implementation of the existing universal and regional human rights instruments. And as a matter of fact, implementation at the national level are various plans and laws and constitutions providing for the right to education for all. So my next two comments will focus on implementation mechanisms. The document the draft recommendation has mentioned in a couple of places for special measures and affirmative action under core principles. And I would like to recommend that this should be given a more important priority and should be explicitly clarified as an important part of the duties of the state to provide equal access and to provide especially vulnerable groups minority communities with equal access. We have a situation where people are underprivileged and cannot even if they get the same level of education, or the same level of facilities they are already underprivileged and suffering. So we need to give them preference, we need to give them preferential treatment. We need to give them special treatment to enable them, to bridge the gap and to empower them, to exercise equal rights and in this case because in many countries, when we plead for special measures and affirmative action we are challenged that this is against the principle of equality.