A/RES/71/321 United Nations Distr.: General 21 September 2017 General Assembly Seventy-first session Agenda item 65 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 September 2017 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.82)] 71/321. Enhancing the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them The General Assembly, Reaffirming the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming also the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 1 and the solemn commitment to respect, promote and advance and in no way diminish the rights of indigenous peoples and to uphold the principles of the Declaration, Reaffirming further the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 2 and recalling the commitment by Member States to consider ways to enable the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, Recalling its resolution 70/232 of 23 December 2015, in which it requested the President of the General Assembly to conduct consultations with Member States, indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions from all regions of the world, and existing relevant mechanisms of the United Nations, on t he possible measures necessary to enable the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, and also requested the President to prepare a compilation of the views presented during the consultations, including good practices within the United Nations regarding indigenous peoples’ participation, which would form the basis for a draft text to be finalized and adopted by the Assembly during its seventy-first session, _______________ 1 2 Resolution 61/295, annex. Resolution 69/2. 17-15809 (E) *1715809* Please recycle