Countries in Defense of the UN Charter urge the effective realization of the right to development
MPPRE Press
Published at: 23/09/2026 03:09 PM
The Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Joaquín Pérez Ay, on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, expressed this Wednesday the importance of promoting human rights, individual and collective, of all.
From New York, during the high-level meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Group urged the international community to treat human rights fairly, equally and without double standards.
In this regard, the spokesperson of the bloc reaffirmed the right to development as an inalienable and indivisible human right, and therefore stressed the urgency of its effective realization, given the persistence of deep inequality within and between countries, caused “by the prevalence of a profoundly unjust, anti-democratic and exclusionary world and international order, which encourages the unfair exploitation of the vast natural resources of the Global South”.
In his speech, Pérez Ayemphasized that the realization of the right to development also requires full respect for sovereignty, self-determination of peoples and the right of each State to define its own priorities and development strategies in a sovereign manner, free from external interference, pressure or conditions incompatible with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and with the norms of international law.
The Group of Friends called for strengthening international cooperation and moving towards a more just, inclusive and equitable international economic system that expands developing countries' access to finance, science, technology and capacity development.
In this regard, the member countries of the bloc confirm their condemnation of the illegal imposition of unilateral coercive measures, which not only contravene international law and the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, but also represent a particularly serious obstacle to the realization of the right to development, since they undermine the capacity of affected States to achieve their development objectives and to advance the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
“We reaffirm our support for the ongoing negotiations on a draft 'International Covenant on the Right to Development', and we encourage all States to participate constructively in this process, with a view to moving towards a legally binding international instrument that will contribute to strengthening the full and effective realization of this human right,” the statement underlines.
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