A/HRC/RES/24/4 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,3 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 fourteenth session;4 7. Recalls that the Working Group, at its fourteenth session, had before it five 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 thirteenth session; 8. Acknowledges the need to have the contributions of experts and, in this context, re-emphasizes the importance of engaging further and inviting to the fifteenth 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; 9. Also acknowledges the need to further consider, revise and refine the draft criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria mentioned in paragraph 5 above, as mandated by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 21/32; 10. 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, in this regard, lead to raising the right to development, as set out in paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, to the same level and on a par with all other human rights and fundamental freedoms; (b) That the criteria and corresponding operational sub-criteria mentioned in paragraph 5 above, 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; (c) That the Working Group shall take appropriate steps to ensure respect for and practical application of the above-mentioned standards, which could take various forms, including 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; (d) To endorse the recommendations of the Working Group as reflected in its report on its fourteenth session;5 3 4 5 See A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2/Add.2. A/HRC/24/37. Ibid., para. 47. 3