A/HRC/35/35 D. Consolidation and analysis of data, writing and submission of the proposed draft declaration 31. In its resolution 23/12, the Council reiterated its request for the Independent Expert to continue to work on the preparation of a draft declaration on the right of peoples and individuals to international solidarity and in that connection, to prepare a preliminary text of the draft with a view to eliciting comments and recommendations for the final declaration. Contributions were received within the specified time frame from civil society, United Nations agencies and other experts. Three States eventually submitted their responses to the preliminary text of the draft declaration. 32. The preliminary text was circulated in 2013 and published as an addendum to the Independent Expert’s report to the Council at its twenty-sixth session (A/HRC/26/34/Add.1). The insights and input from United Nations agencies and independent experts, including those arising from the 2012 expert workshop, the final paper of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, and the comments submitted by NGOs, academics, national human rights institutions and local communities on the preliminary text, were of great value in the preparation of the proposed draft declaration, which was also submitted to the Council at that session (A/HRC/26/34, annex). 33. In that report, the Independent Expert explained that since the document she submitted was prepared even in the absence of comments and inputs from States themselves, she used the word “proposed” in the title of the draft declaration. One of her recommendations in that report was that the Human Rights Council should hold regional consultations on the proposed draft declaration so that the Independent Expert could gather as much input as possible from States and their representatives on the proposed draft declaration. Participants in the regional consultations would include relevant policymakers, decision makers and representatives of Governments, regional United Nations agencies, national human rights institutions and NGOs, and they would be able to effectively examine and discuss the proposed declaration based on their actual work experience. The outputs from the regional consultations would thus be well-informed by direct inputs and comments on the text of the proposed draft declaration. At the end of the consultation cycle, the Independent Expert would consolidate and consider the outputs from all the regional consultations, revise the proposed draft declaration as appropriate, and submit the amended draft declaration for the consideration of the Human Rights Council. 34. The Council noted with appreciation the proposed draft declaration and decided that, in order to obtain further inputs from as many Member States as possible on it, the Independent Expert, with the assistance of OHCHR, would convene regional consultations, consolidate and consider the outputs from all the consultations and submit a report to the Council at its thirty-second session. The Council requested the Independent Expert to submit a revised draft declaration to it and to the General Assembly before the end of her second term in June 2017. 35. The paragraphs that follow contain a brief summary of the contents of the proposed draft declaration, in order to facilitate better appreciation of the final draft declaration on the right to international solidarity, contained in the annex to the present report. The summary also serves as background reference for the comments and notes relating to the revisions on the text of the proposed draft declaration. As indicated above, the full text of the proposed draft declaration is contained in the annex to document A/HRC/26/34. E. Proposed draft declaration on the right of peoples and individuals to international solidarity 36. In its preambular paragraphs, the proposed draft declaration on the right of peoples and individuals to international solidarity affirms that international solidarity is not limited to international assistance and cooperation, aid, charity or humanitarian assistance. Preambular paragraph 8 succinctly expresses the substantive foundation of the proposed draft declaration when it stresses that international solidarity is a fundamental concept of mutually reinforcing relations among persons, groups and nations, an essential binding 9