E/CN.4/2005/88/Add.2 page 17 resources, and partly because the conflict situation described above makes indigenous peoples more vulnerable even within their own reserves. Furthermore, the constitution of indigenous territorial entities, as expressions of indigenous peoples’ autonomous rights, has still not been incorporated into the State’s institutional framework. The Special Rapporteur is concerned at potential threats to the integrity of the indigenous reserves, and thus to the collective rights of the indigenous peoples, that may arise in the future, and suggests that a broad-based commission should be established to carry out a pilot study of the problem. 61. The Regional Council of Cabildos, which represents four indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada, states that its members’ interest, as indigenous peoples and ancestral owners of this territory, is in obtaining the use, management and control of their traditional lands by applying the strategies of consolidation of land, reinforcement of indigenous government in all its forms and management of the land in a balanced manner consistent with historical and current reality. The consolidation of land, as a principle and as a policy, is based upon the rehabilitation and extension of existing reserves, the establishment of a Kankuamo reserve and the protection, recovery and control of traditional sacred sites. 62. In 2003, the Government and the Regional Council of Cabildos signed an agreement providing for consolidation of indigenous lands, indigenous government, environmental conservation, the sustainable development of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and inter-agency coordination with regional and local authorities. 63. The territorial changes have also had an impact on the indigenous peoples’ subsistence economy. One of the hardest hit groups has been the Wayuu people in Guajira, who complain that legislation, the Government’s development priorities and the paramilitary presence have all had an adverse effect on their living conditions. One of the examples they cite is the fact that the Ministry of Mines and Energy has failed to honour an agreement signed in 2002 between the Government and several indigenous cooperatives trading in fuel products on the Colombia-Venezuela border, with the result that AUC, by intimidation and harassment, has managed to set up its own company, to the detriment of the Wayuu indigenous cooperatives. In a letter handed to the Special Rapporteur, the Wayuu community of Manaure demands that the Government comply with the agreement allowing the community to engage in the production and sale of salt, a job performed mainly by women. 64. Similarly, the indigenous Yukpa community of the Perijá mountains on the Venezuelan border submitted a complaint to the Special Rapporteur alleging that its territory is being invaded by non-indigenous peasant settlers who threaten their traditional activities, thus causing them to fear for their survival. D. Access to justice and indigenous jurisdiction 65. As in other countries of the region, the issue of the administration and functioning of justice is of particular concern to the indigenous peoples. In Colombia, access to justice is closely bound up with land issues, the strengthening of indigenous peoples’ authorities and respect for their own jurisdiction. 66. The problems cited in connection with the administration of justice include: the non-recognition by the State authorities of indigenous peoples’ ethnic and cultural diversity and