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the Second International Decade, and invites Governments and agencies to continue
supporting the Trust Fund so that it may respond to the heavy demands on its
resources, especially those from indigenous peoples’ organizations and
communities.
130. The Permanent Forum expresses its appreciation to the Government of
Denmark, the Greenland Home Rule Government and the Inuit Circumpolar
Conference for hosting the Workshop on Partnership Visions for the Second Decade
for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, in Nuuk,
Greenland, on 14 and 15 February 2006. In addition to endorsing the
recommendations contained in the report of the Workshop (E/C.19/2006/4/Add.2,
paras. 50-76), the Permanent Forum endorses and draws the attention of
Governments, the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations,
indigenous peoples and other actors to the “Elements of good (effective and
efficient) partnerships” contained in section IV.A of the same report (paras. 38-47).
131. Relations with the Commission on Sustainable Development should be
strengthened, inter alia, by ensuring that the Chairpersons of the Commission and
the Permanent Forum are invited to present statements at each other’s annual
meetings and that cooperation between the secretariats of the Commission and the
Permanent Forum is enhanced.
132. The Permanent Forum welcomes the implementation by the Russian
Federation of the Permanent Forum’s recommendation 20 on the creation of a
national organizational committee for the Second International Decade of the
World’s Indigenous People, in which the indigenous peoples would fully participate,
and urges other countries to undertake similar initiatives. The Permanent Forum is
ready for close cooperation and coordination of activities with all similar
organizations on implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second
International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.
133. The Permanent Forum recommends that donor agencies support full, direct and
effective participation by indigenous peoples at the meetings of the Commission on
Sustainable Development. This would include support for:
• Preparatory activities encompassing consulting
organizations during the intersessional period
indigenous
peoples’
• Drafting of the policy and discussion papers submitted by each major group as
a contribution to the Secretary-General’s report
• Identification of indigenous participants who could best contribute to the
various thematic issues under discussion under the Commission’s multi-year
programme of work
• Coordination of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus
• Reporting back, and dissemination of information, to indigenous peoples after
the meeting.
134. The Permanent Forum supports decision VIII/6 adopted by the Conference of
the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its eighth meeting, in which
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Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 23 (E/2005/43),
chap. I, para. 144.
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