[HIGHLIGHTS] Former Chairman of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development: Why is the right to development important and how can it be promoted?

The right to development should be given equal importance and on an equal footing with other human rights. Koen De Feyter, Professor of International Law at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, was Chair of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development.

De Feitt recently gave an exclusive interview to the China News Agency's "East-West Question" to discuss the relationship between the right todevelopment and human rights, and put forward his views on promoting the implementation of the right. The right to develop involves various relationships between individuals and people, people and the state, and between the state and theState.