The right to development A/RES/72/167 1. Takes note of the consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights concerning the promotion and realization of the right to development; 13 2. Acknowledges the need to strive for greater acceptance, operationalization and realization of the right to development at the international level while urging all States to undertake at the national level the necessary policy formulation and to institute the measures required for the implementation of the right to development as an integral part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms; 3. 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, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 5 which seeks to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what they did not achieve, 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; 4. 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, 17 and recognizes the need for renewed efforts towards intensifying deliberations in the Working Group to fulfil its mandate at the earliest; 5. Reaffirms the recommendations adopted by the Working Group at its eighteenth session, 12 and 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 Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/4; 15 6. Stresses that the 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; 7. Emphasizes the importance of the Working Group taking appropriate steps to ensure respect for and the 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; 8. Calls upon Member States to contribute to the efforts of the Working Group, including by considering the proposed set of standards on the implementation and realization of the right to development, and in that context underscores the importance of finalizing the criteria and subcriteria of the right to development; 9. Stresses the importance of the core principles contained in the conclusions of the Working Group at its third session 18 that are 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 int ernational levels, and underlines the importance of the principles of equity and transparency; __________________ 17 18 17-22978 Ibid., Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/63/53/Add.1), chap. I. See E/CN.4/2002/28/Rev.1, sect. VIII.A. 5/10