E/2010/43 E/C.19/2010/15 provide legal and technical comments on the revised draft protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization for transmission to parties to the Convention for consideration in their final negotiations. 115. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Michael Dodson and Victoria TauliCorpuz, Members of the Permanent Forum, as Special Rapporteurs to organize and undertake a technical review of the proposed international regime on access and benefit-sharing, as recommended in paragraph 48 (i) of the report of the international expert group meeting on the international regime on access and benefit-sharing and indigenous peoples’ human rights of the Convention on Biological Diversity (E/C.19/2007/8). 116. The Permanent Forum recommends that the Ad Hoc Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing consider at its next meeting the report of the international indigenous and local community consultation on access and benefit-sharing and the development of an international regime (UNEP/CBD/WG-ABS/5/INF/9). 117. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint a member to participate in any future meetings of the Working Group on access and benefit-sharing and the tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention. Future work of the Permanent Forum 118. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has analysed and discussed indigenous fishing rights in the seas on the basis of a report submitted by the Special Rapporteurs. As a result of those discussions, the Forum considers the protection of the material basis of the culture of indigenous peoples to be a part of international law that should be applied also to fishing rights in the seas, and recommends that States in which indigenous peoples live in coastal areas recognize indigenous peoples’ right to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law. In that context, the Forum notes the ongoing consultations between the Government of Norway and the Sami Parliament and recommends that the Government recognize the right of the coastal Sami to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law. 119. The Permanent Forum welcomes the adoption by the Central African Republic of ILO Convention No. 169. 120. The Permanent Forum welcomes the publication of the socio-linguistic atlas of indigenous peoples in Latin America by UNICEF, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and the Foundation for PROEIB Andes, the training programme in intercultural and bilingual education for Andean countries. 121. The Permanent Forum welcomes the March 2009 visit of a Nepali delegation of Constitutional Assembly members to the Plurinational State of Bolivia and to Guatemala, aimed at sharing and exchanging experiences on constitutional reform and the implementation of ILO Convention No. 169 with Constitutional Assembly members and representatives of the Governments of both countries. 122. The Permanent Forum decides that Forum members Lars-Anders Baer, Bartolomé Clavero Salvador, Michael Dodson and Carsten Smith shall prepare a paper that responds to the comments made by certain Member States on the annex to 10-36959 19

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