Statement: Dominican Republic on behalf of CELAC

CELAC thanks the panelists for their presentations.

In celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development CELAC takes this opportunity to call to redouble efforts for the effective promotion and protection of the right to development, fundamental to the realization of all other rights, recognizing its universality, inalienability, indivisibility and interdependence.

Similarly, we deepen our commitment to achieving a more inclusive and solidary region with gender equity, that contributes to advance the achievement of sustainable development, food security and nutrition, the sustainable protection of the planet and its natural resources and the eradication of hunger, poverty and inequality, taking into account the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

For CELAC, international cooperation plays an important role in the realization of the right to development. For this reason we consider necessary the creation of an enabling environment at all levels for achieving sustainable development. We call upon all actors of the international community to operationalize the right to development.