Endorses the conclusions and recommendations adopted by consensus by the Working Group on the Right to Development of the Human Rights Council at its 10th session, and calls for their immediate, full and effective implementation by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant actors; supports the realization of the mandate of the Working Group with the recognition that the Working Group will convene annual sessions of five working days and submit its reports to the Council; also supports the realization of the mandate of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development established within the framework of the Working Group; encourages the Human Rights Council to consider how to ensure follow-up to the work of the former Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights on the right to development; reaffirms the primary responsibility of States to create national and international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development; expresses its deep concern at the negative impact on the realization of the right to development owing to the further aggravation of the economic and social situation, in particular of developing countries, as a result of the ongoing international energy, food and financial crises as well as global climate change; urges developed countries that have not yet done so to make concrete efforts towards meeting the targets of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product for official development assistance to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.2 per cent of their gross national product to least developed countries; reaffirms the request to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in mainstreaming the right to development, to undertake effectively activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development between Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and trade institutions, and to reflect those activities in detail in her next report to the Human Rights Council.

Adopted 133-23-30, 65th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.