A/HRC/RES/27/2 relating to the promotion and realization of the right to development in the period from May 2013 to April 2014; 2. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Human Rights Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system with regard to the promotion and realization of the right to development; 3. Takes note of the efforts under way in the framework of the Working Group on the Right to Development with a view to completing the tasks entrusted to it by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/4, in fulfilment of the mandate of the Working Group as established by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1998/72 of 22 April 1998; 4. 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; 5. Welcomes the launching in the Working Group of the process of considering, revising and refining the draft right to development criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria, with the first reading of the draft criteria and operational sub-criteria; 6. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Working Group on its fifteenth session;3 7. Recalls that the Working Group, at its fifteenth session, had before it four documents containing detailed views and comments on the draft criteria and operational sub-criteria submitted by Governments, groups of Governments, regional groups and other relevant stakeholders, including United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and institutions, as well as other relevant multilateral institutions and forums, in fulfilment of the conclusions and recommendations agreed at its fourteenth session; 8. Takes note with appreciation of the continuation of the process of considering, revising and refining the draft criteria and the corresponding operational subcriteria, and welcomes the completion of the first reading of the draft criteria and operational sub-criteria; 9. Acknowledges the need to have the contributions of experts, regrets the low attendance of invited experts from international organizations at the fifteenth session of the Working Group, and in this context urges their broader engagement and re-emphasizes the importance of engaging further and inviting to the sixteenth session of the Working Group experts from relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and institutions, as well as other multilateral institutions and forums, international organizations and other relevant stakeholders; 10. Also acknowledges the need to further consider, revise and refine the draft criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria mentioned in paragraphs 5 and 8 above, as mandated by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 21/32; 11. Decides: (a) To continue to act to ensure that its agenda promotes and advances sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and 3 A/HRC/27/45. 3