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(g) Identifying resources for activities designed to implement the goals of the Decade, in cooperation
with indigenous people and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;
11. Invites the United Nations financial and developmental institutions, operational programmes and
the specialized agencies, in accordance with the existing procedures of their governing bodies:
(a) To give increased priority and resources to improving the conditions of indigenous people, with
particular emphasis on the needs of those people in developing countries, including through the
preparation of specific programmes of action for the implementation of the goals of the Decade, within
their areas of competence;
(b) To launch special projects, through appropriate channels and in collaboration with indigenous
people, to strengthen their community-level initiatives and to facilitate the exchange of information and
expertise among indigenous people and other relevant experts;
(c) To designate focal points for coordination of activities related to the Decade with the Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;
12. Recommends that the Secretary-General ensure coordinated follow-up to the recommendations
concerning indigenous people of relevant world conferences, namely, the World Conference on Human
Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 3 to 14 June 1992, the International Conference on
Population and Development, held at Cairo from 5 to 13 September 1994, the Fourth World Conference
on Women, held at Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995, and the World Summit for Social Development,
held at Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March 1995;
13. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit, through the
Secretary-General, a report on the implementation of the programme of activities of the Decade to the
General Assembly at its fifty-third session;
14. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled
"Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People".
70th plenary meeting
12 December 1997