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E/CN.19/2002/3/Rev.1
Chapter V
Work plan of the Forum
77. The Forum considered item 7 of its agenda at its 15th and 16th meetings, on 22
May 2002.
78. At the 15th meeting, on 22 May, statements were made by Parshuram Tamang
and Antonio Jacanamijoy, members of the Forum.
79. At the same meeting, statements were made by the observers for Denmark and
Switzerland.
80. At the 16th meeting, on 22 May, statements were made by Wayne Lord and
Njuma Ekundanayo, members of the Forum.
81. At the same meeting, statements were made by the observers for the following
States and organizations: Indigenous Caucus (joint statement), Parlamento Indigena
de America, Haudenosaunee, Core Manipur, Indonesia, Te Kawau Maro and Na Koa
Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawai’i (joint statement), New Zealand, CAPAJ (joint statement),
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Regional Action Group for the Environment,
Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (joint statement), National
Aboriginal and Islander Services Secretariat (joint statement), Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Commission (joint statement), Centre for International Indigenous
Legal Studies Project (University of British Columbia), Saami Council and Inuit
Circumpolar Conference (joint statement), Indigenous Peoples Centre for
Documentation, Research and Information, the Russian Federation, Asociacion
Nacional Indigena Salvadorena, Alaska University, Organizacion Gonawindva
Tarono Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta — Colombia, Inuit Youth International,
Aymara Alliance, Asia Indigenous Caucus (joint statement), American Indian Law
Alliance, Canada, Abya Yala Fund for Indigenous Rights, Maasai Education
Discovery, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People and Sovereign Dineh
Nation (joint statement), Tebtebba Foundation, Tamaynut-ANCAP, Taller de
Historia Oral Andina, Fundación Achuar “Ecologica Kapawi”, Kaweshkar Project
for Indigenous People — Chile, Asociación Regional Aborigen del DIKES (Costa
Rica), Indigenous Caucus (joint statement), Myanmar.
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