E/2003/43 E/C.19/2003/22 Chapter V Mandated areas 1. The Forum considered item 4 of its agenda at its 4th to 16th, and 18th and 19th meetings, from 13 to 23 May 2003. A. Economic and social development 2. At the 4th meeting, on 13 May a statement on sub-item 4 (a) was made by the observer for the United Nations Development Programme. 3. At the 5th meeting, on 14 May, an interactive dialogue on the sub-item was conducted by the United Nations Forum on Forests, UN-Habitat, United Nations Population Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Fund and the following members of the Forum: Mililani Trask, Ayitegan Kouevi, Marcos Matias Alonso, Ida Nicolaisen, Parshuram Tamang, Otilia Lux de Coti, Wayne Lord, Zinaida Strogalschikova, Njuma Ekundanayo and Qin Xiaomei. 4. At the same meeting, a statement was made by the Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. 5. Also at the same meeting, statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Saami Council; Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network; Tebtebba Foundation; Bethechilokono; Mexico; Philippines; Saulteau First Nations; Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica; Centro de Estudia Aymaras of Bolivia; Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment/International Oil Working Group; Parlamento del Pueblo Qullana Aymara; Consejo Internacional de Trafados Indios; Fundación para la promoción de Conocimiento Indigena. 6. At the 6th meeting, on 14 May, the Forum continued its discussion on the subitem and statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Brazil; Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People; Tonatierra; Canada; World Bank; American Indian Community Health; Comisión Jurídica; the Indigenous Peoples Caucus on Sustainable Development; Inuit Circumpolar Conference; Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti; Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action; Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition; Pacific Caucus; Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network; Lumad Peoples Movement for Peace; Hill Watch Human Rights Forum; Consejo de Pueblos y Organizaciones Indígenas del Ecuador; Council of Spiritual Elders of Mother Earth (Turtle Islands); Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus; Association of Limbu Shamans of Nepal; Confederaciones Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador; and Seventh Generation. 7. At the same meeting, statements were made by the following members of the Forum: Mililani Trask; Wilton Littlechild; Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca; and Parshuram Tamang. 8. At the 7th meeting, on 15 May, the Forum continued its discussion of the subitem and heard statements by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North; Yachay Wasi (Runa Simi) Quechua; Red Continental de Medios de Comunicacion 26