Enhancing the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them A/RES/71/321 Recalling also other relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, 3 Recognizing the need to find ways and means of promoting the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions within the United Nations system on issues affecting them, given that they are not always organized as non-governmental organizations, Emphasizing that the modalities for the participation of indigenous peoples in the work of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Expert M echanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples and the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the rights of indigenous peoples shall continue undiminished, 1. Takes note with appreciation of the compilation of views on possible measures necessary to enable the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in relevant United Nations meetings on issues affecting them, and of good practices within the United Nations reg arding indigenous peoples’ participation, 4 transmitted by the President of the General Assembly as the basis for a draft text to be finalized and adopted by the Assembly during its seventy-first session; 2. Welcomes the constructive and open informal dialogue between Member States and indigenous peoples on the possible measures necessary to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, held during it s seventieth and seventy-first sessions; 3. Encourages the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the rights of indigenous peoples, in promot ing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 1 to continue to address the enhanced participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions within the United Nations on issues affecting them; 4. Encourages further efforts to facilitate the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, in accordance with their respective rules of procedure, inter alia, through the inclusion of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in the modalities for relevant conferences, summits and other meetings convened by the United Nations on issues affecting them, in accordance with the relevant decisions established by the appropriate body or organization responsible for those meetings; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly, by the end of its seventy-fourth session, on achievements, analysis and concrete recommendations on the possible further measures necessary to enable the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of relevant United Nations bodies on issues affecting them, building on the report of the Secretary-General on ways and means of promoting participation at the United _______________ 3 In particular, Human Rights Council resolutions 18/8 (see Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II) and 21/24 (see Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. II). 4 A/70/990. 2/3