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policy dialogue and recommendations on issues of economic and social
development, as well as for implementation of the international development goals
agreed at the major United Nations conferences and summits, including the
Millennium Development Goals. To achieve these objectives, the Council should:
(a) Promote global dialogue and partnership on global policies and trends in
the economic, social, environmental and humanitarian fields. For this purpose, the
Council should serve as a quality platform for high-level engagement among
Member States and with the international financial institutions, the private sector
and civil society on emerging global trends, policies and action and develop its
ability to respond better and more rapidly to developments in the international
economic, environmental and social fields;
(b) Hold a biennial high-level Development Cooperation Forum to review
trends in international development cooperation, including strategies, policies and
financing, promote greater coherence among the development activities of different
development partners and strengthen the links between the normative and
operational work of the United Nations;
(c) Ensure follow-up of the outcomes of the major United Nations
conferences and summits, including the internationally agreed development goals,
and hold annual ministerial-level substantive reviews to assess progress, drawing on
its functional and regional commissions and other international institutions, in
accordance with their respective mandates;
(d) Support and complement international efforts aimed at addressing
humanitarian emergencies, including natural disasters, in order to promote an
improved, coordinated response from the United Nations;
(e) Play a major role in the overall coordination of funds, programmes and
agencies, ensuring coherence among them and avoiding duplication of mandates and
activities.
156. We stress that in order to fully perform the above functions, the organization
of work, the agenda and the current methods of work of the Economic and Social
Council should be adapted.
Human Rights Council
157. Pursuant to our commitment to further strengthen the United Nations human
rights machinery, we resolve to create a Human Rights Council.
158. The Council will be responsible for promoting universal respect for the
protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction
of any kind and in a fair and equal manner.
159. The Council should address situations of violations of human rights, including
gross and systematic violations, and make recommendations thereon. It should also
promote effective coordination and the mainstreaming of human rights within the
United Nations system.
160. We request the President of the General Assembly to conduct open, transparent
and inclusive negotiations, to be completed as soon as possible during the sixtieth
session, with the aim of establishing the mandate, modalities, functions, size,
composition, membership, working methods and procedures of the Council.
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