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16.
Invites Governments, competent United Nations bodies and
specialized agencies and other intergovernmental institutions, including
financial institutions, to consider providing additional resources to finance
the attachment of suitable staff, including indigenous staff, to the Centre
for Human Rights on a regionally balanced basis;
17.
Encourages Governments to establish national committees or other
more permanent structures involving indigenous representatives to plan
activities for the Decade;
18.
Requests that the meeting to be convened in accordance with
General Assembly resolution 46/128 of 17 December 1991 to review the Year also
consider preparations for the Decade, giving full participation to indigenous
people, particularly with regard to the elaboration of a detailed plan of
action, including an evaluation mechanism, and the establishment of a funding
plan for the Decade, and that the meeting report to the Working Group on
Indigenous Populations;
19.
Urges the competent United Nations organs, programmes and
specialized agencies, in planning activities for the Decade, to examine how
existing programmes and resources might be utilized to benefit indigenous
people more effectively, including through the exploration of ways in which
indigenous perspectives and activities can be included or enhanced;
20.
Requests the Commission on Human Rights at its fiftieth session to
give priority consideration to the establishment of a permanent forum for
indigenous people in the United Nations system;
21.
Requests the Secretary-General to give all the assistance
necessary to ensure the success of the Decade;
22.
Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to it a preliminary
report at its forty-ninth session and a final report at its fiftieth session
on a comprehensive programme of action for the Decade;
23.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth
session an item entitled "Programme of activities of the International Decade
of the World’s Indigenous People".
86th plenary meeting
21 December 1993