A/RES/69/181 The right to development 2. Recognizes the significance of all the events held to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, 14 including the panel discussion on the theme “The way forward in the realization of the right to development: between policy and practice”, held during the eighteenth session of the Human Rights Council; 3. Supports the realization of the mandate of the Working Group on the Right to Development, as renewed by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 9/3 of 24 September 2008,15 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,16 and, while reaffirming them, calls for their immediate, full and effective implementation by the Office of the United Nations 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;12 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 the raising of 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, by the Working Group, of the process for considering, revising and refining the draft right-to-development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria, 17 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; 8. 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 the consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature through a collaborative process of engagement; 9. Stresses the importance of the core principles contained in the conclusions of the Working Group at its third session,18 congruent with the purpose _______________ 14 Resolution 41/128, annex. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1), chap. I. 16 A/HRC/24/37. 17 See A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2. 18 See E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1, sect. VIII.A. 15 4/9