A/66/288 of the Support Project for the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which is part of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona, United States. Finally, he thanks the many indigenous peoples, Governments, United Nations bodies and agencies, non-governmental organizations and others that have cooperated with him over the past three years to implement his mandate. 113. The Special Rapporteur is pleased to provide the General Assembly with the present report and looks forward to holding a dialogue with States about his work. Although he is encouraged by the positive developments that have taken place in many places, he remains concerned about the ongoing struggles for and violations of indigenous peoples’ rights throughout the world. During the second term of his mandate, he will make the development of concrete measures to tackle these pressing problems a top priority by identifying good practices and workable models and building on advances already made. Through this work, he hopes to assist in the multifaceted efforts under way to achieve the future envisioned by the Assembly when it adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, a future in which indigenous peoples’ distinct identities and cultures are fully valued and in which they have the opportunity to control their own destinies, under conditions of equality, within the broader societies in which they live. 11-44942 23

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