Registration No: VR 18781 Oral Statement by the World Uyghur Congress for Agenda Item 6 ("Concrete steps to advance and build capacity of minorities to participate effectively in economic life") of the 2010 UN Forum on Minority Issues Delivered by: Kathy Polias, UN. Liaison The Introduction of the "Draft Recommendations of minorities and effective participation in economic life" noted that there are "many cases of misguided efforts to increase the economic participation of minorities, including the pursuit of forced migration or displacement, and resettlement of dominant groups to 'develop' minority regions." The World Uyghur Congress wishes to highlight some of the problems of these particular types of initiatives and why governments should abandon.them as strategies to increase the economic participation of minorities. With regard to government programs that resettle dominant groups to minority' regions, the bottom line is that members of the minority group often end up being left out of the development that occurs and the settlers from the dominant group become the almost exclusive beneficiaries of that development. This, scenario is actually pre-determined when the government offers incentives to the dominant group to resettle to the minority region and therefore sets the stage for the settlers to disproportionately benefit — as