E/2006/43 E/C.19/2006/11 9. Future work of the Permanent Forum including emerging issues. Documentation Note by the Secretariat and other documents to be submitted by the United Nations system, Governments and indigenous peoples’ organizations B. 10. Draft agenda for the seventh session of the Permanent Forum. 11. Adoption of the report of the Permanent Forum on its sixth session. Matters brought to the attention of the Council 2. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has identified the proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action set out below and, through the Council, recommends that States, United Nations system and intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations assist in their realization. 3. It is the understanding of the Secretariat that the extent of the implementation of the proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action to be carried out by the United Nations as set out below will depend on the availability of resources from the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources. Special theme: the Millennium Development Goals and indigenous peoples: redefining the Goals 4. During the dialogue with indigenous peoples on the Millennium Development Goals, many indigenous organizations made statements about the urgent need to redefine the Goals. While the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues appreciates that it may not be possible to redefine the Goals, it also recognizes that there is a clear need to redefine approaches to the implementation of the Goals so as to include the perspectives, concerns, experiences and world views of indigenous peoples. Statements also confirmed that there was a need for indigenous peoples to provide their own definitions of poverty and development and that there should be full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in the implementation of the Goals. 5. The rights-based approach to the implementation of the Goals was again stressed. 6. Indigenous peoples in developed countries pointed out that indigenous peoples suffered from significant disparities in the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights. Such disparities tended to be masked at the international level owing to the lack of disaggregated data and the high level of enjoyment of such rights by the non-indigenous population compared with indigenous peoples. As a result, there is insufficient recognition that there are challenges for meeting the Goals in developed countries. Concern was expressed that developed countries treated the Goals as a matter of foreign policy, relevant only to the country’s international aid programme. 7. The Permanent Forum recommends that States, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations 3