A/RES/67/171 The right to development 4. Supports the realization of the mandate of the Working Group, as renewed by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 9/3 of 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; Welcomes the launching, in the Working Group, of the process for 5. considering, revising and refining the draft right-to-development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria, 15 with the first reading of the draft criteria; 6. 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; 7. Notes the work of the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development, the mandate of which ended in 2010, including its consolidation of findings and the list of right-to-development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria; 16 8. Encourages Member States and relevant stakeholders, when submitting views on the work of the high-level task force and the way forward, to take into consideration the essential features of the right to development, using as a reference the Declaration on the Right to Development and resolutions on the right to development of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly; Stresses that the above-mentioned compilations of views, criteria and 9. 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; 10. Emphasizes the importance of the Working Group taking appropriate 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 consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature through a collaborative process of engagement; 11. Stresses the importance of the core principles contained in the 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; _______________ 14 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1), chap. I. 15 See A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2. 16 See A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2 and Corr.1 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1 and Add.2. 17 See E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1, sect. VIII.A. 4/9