E/2014/43 E/C.19/2014/11 deeply concerned that the full, effective and equal participation of indigenous peoples in all processes leading to and including the high-level plenary meeting remains uncertain. Clear and decisive leadership by the President of the Assembly is required to proceed with preparations leading up to the Conference. 52. The Permanent Forum reiterates that the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the normative framework for the high-level plenary meeting/World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to be convened during the sixty ninth session of the General Assembly. The provisions of resolution 66/296 must be given the widest and most generous interpretation possible in order to ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples. 53. The Permanent Forum welcomes the organization by the Sami Parliament of Norway of the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, held in Alta, Norway from 10 to 12 June 2013. Member States, the United Nations system and indigenous peoples are urged to consider the Alta Outcome Document (A/67/994, annex) as the basis for consultations on the elaboration of the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting/World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. 54. The Permanent Forum reiterates that all decisions related to the high-level plenary meeting/World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, its arrangements and the development of the outcome document should be made with the full, equal, direct and effective participation of indigenous peoples, as recognized by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/296, in the Alta Outcome Document and in several recommendations of the Forum (E/2011/43, paras. 122-123; E/2012/43, paras. 69 and 83; and E/2013/43, para. 85). 55. The Permanent Forum welcomes the efforts of the indigenous Global Coordinating Group to respond to the request of the President of the Gen eral Assembly as its sixty-eighth session, which concluded with the nomination of two indigenous advisers. The Forum urges the President of the sixty-eighth session to formalize their designation so as to start the consultation process on the high -level plenary meeting/World Conference on Indigenous Peoples as soon as possible, by June. 56. The Permanent Forum recommends that the President of the General Assembly take immediate steps to ensure the full, equal, direct and effective participation of indigenous peoples throughout all aspects and processes of the high-level plenary meeting/World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in order to achieve an action oriented, concise, inclusive, constructive and comprehensive outcome that will genuinely promote the full and effective implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (art. 18). 57. In relation to the preparation for the high-level plenary meeting/World Conference, the Permanent Forum welcomes the study entitled “Rights of indigenous peoples: achievements and challenges in the Latin American countries”, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in collaboration with indigenous peoples, and encourages States, agencies and regional commissions to undertake similar studies. 58. The Permanent Forum recommends that the “Study on the impacts of the Doctrine of Discovery on indigenous peoples, including mechanisms, processes and instruments of redress” (E/C.19/2014/3), with references to the Declaration and 14/22 14-54937

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