A/RES/68/158 The right to development 24 September 2008, 14 with the recognition that the Working Group may convene annual sessions of five working days and submit its reports to the Council; 4. Endorses the recommendations adopted by the Working Group at its fourteenth session, 15 and, while reaffirming them, calls for their immediate, full and effective implementation by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant actors, noting also the efforts under way within the framework of the Working Group with a view to completing the tasks entrusted to it by the Council in its resolution 4/4;11 5. Emphasizes the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006 establishing the Human Rights Council, and in this regard calls upon the Council to implement the agreement to continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and also in this regard to lead to raising the right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,3 to the same level as and on a par with all other human rights and fundamental freedoms; 6. Welcomes the launching, in the Working Group, of the process for considering, revising and refining the draft right-to-development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria, 16 with the first reading of the draft criteria and operational subcriteria; 7. Stresses that the above-mentioned compilations of views, criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria, once considered, revised and endorsed by the Working Group, should be used, as appropriate, in the elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the right to development; Emphasizes the importance of the Working Group taking appropriate 8. steps to ensure respect for and practical application of the above-mentioned standards, which could take various forms, including the elaboration of guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and evolve into a basis for the consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature through a collaborative process of engagement; Stresses the importance of the core principles contained in the 9. conclusions of the Working Group at its third session, 17 congruent with the purpose of international human rights instruments, such as equality, non-discrimination, accountability, participation and international cooperation, as critical to mainstreaming the right to development at the national and international levels, and underlines the importance of the principles of equity and transparency; 10. Also stresses that it is important that the Chair-Rapporteur and the Working Group, in the discharge of their mandates, take into account the need: (a) To promote the democratization of the system of international governance in order to increase the effective participation of developing countries in international decision-making; _______________ 14 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1), chap. I. 15 A/HRC/24/37. 16 See A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2. 17 See E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1, sect. VIII.A. 4/9