E/2009/43 E/C.19/2009/14 study centres; urges States to adopt a policy of free university tuition for all indigenous peoples; encourages those universities that have not already done so to establish designated places and scholarships for indigenous students; and encourages UNESCO to support those initiatives where applicable. 87. The Permanent Forum adopts general comment No. 1 (2009), entitled “Article 42 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. 5 88. The Permanent Forum recommends that all States apply the principles of general comment No. 11 (2009) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, entitled “Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention”. 89. The Permanent Forum recognizes the cultural significance and medical importance of the coca leaf in the Andean and other indigenous regions of South America. It also notes that coca leaf chewing is specifically banned by the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961). The Permanent Forum recommends that those portions of the Convention regarding coca leaf chewing that are inconsistent with the rights of indigenous peoples to maintain their traditional health and cultural practices, as recognized in articles 11, 24 and 31 of the Declaration, be amended and/or repealed. 90. The Permanent Forum takes note of the 2009 report of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, particularly the general observation, and the nine individual observations on implementation of ILO Convention No. 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples. The Forum welcomes the increased attention paid by the Committee to ILO Convention No. 169 and calls upon the Committee to fully incorporate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in its individual observations as a source of interpretation of the Convention. 91. The Permanent Forum notes that the observations adopted by the Committee of Experts incorporate relevant parameters for the implementation of the Convention by States parties in good faith. The Permanent Forum also observes that in some instances, the Committee demanded that State parties provide additional reports for the Committee at its eightieth, in 2009, session, instead of in 2013, as originally planned. Those requests for advanced reports illustrate that, in a number of countries, serious obstacles still exist in relation to the enjoyment of indigenous peoples’ fundamental rights, as affirmed in ILO Convention No. 169 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 92. In this connection, and in respect of articles 41 and 42 of the Declaration, the Permanent Forum trusts that, at its ninety-eighth session, in 2009, the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards of the International Labour Conference will pay due attention to the cases of violation of ILO Convention No. 169, which have been signalled by the Committee of Experts, in the light of the Declaration, and urges States to respond promptly to the reports of the Committee of Experts. 93. The Permanent Forum recommends that an appropriate form of coordination should be explored between the Committee of Experts and the Forum regarding the implementation of ILO Convention No. 169. The Permanent Forum reiterates the need for a mechanism of coordination to also be established between the ILO supervisory mechanisms and indigenous peoples, which may include the __________________ 5 09-36351 E/C.19/2009/L.3, annex. 13