E/2004/43 E/C.19/2004/23 Chapter V Future work of the Forum 1. The Forum considered item 5 at its 15th to 17th meetings, on 20 and 21 May 2004. 2. At its 15th meeting, on 20 May, the Forum heard statements by the following observers: American Indian Law Alliance/Native Children’s Survival/Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council/Seventh Generation Fund/Tonatierra/CISA/Buffalo River/Dene Nation/Samson Cree Nation/Laguna Pueblo/Euchee Language Project, Caribbean Antilles Indigenous Peoples Caucus, Mexico, Asian Indigenous Caucus, Indonesia, Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples’s Forum/Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti/Jumma Peoples’ Network/Trinamul/Taungya/Bawm Literatura Forum, Dominica, Nigeria, European Community, International Indigenous Youth Caucus, Saami Council/Inuit Circumpolar Conference, COBASE/Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples North East Zone/Rural Development Society/Association of Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities Journalists/Roje Eshanshali/Tinhinan/Makak Maku/Indian Young Professionals Foundation/Associaciacao das Mulheres Indigenas do Centro d’Oeste Paulista/Associaciacao Avaete Guarani Kaiava e Erena de Dourados/Threatened Indigenous Peoples Society/Masai Women Organization/Foundation for Indigenous Americans of Anasazi Heritage/Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples Legal Support Office in America, Beijing Caucus, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs/Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade, Land is Life/Comite Intertribal Brasil, Earth Peoples, Servicios en Comuncacion Intercultural, Taymaynut/IPACC/Tinhinan/Tagast, Armenian Sisters, Haudenosaunee Six Nation, and Centre de Documentation, Recherche et Information des Peuples Autochtones. 3. At the same meeting, the following members of the Forum made statements: Yuji Iwasawa, Ayitegan Kouevi, Zinaida Strogalschikova. 4. At its 16th meeting, on 21 May, the Forum heard statements by the following observers: Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation, Haudenosaunee Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, Consejo de Pueblos Nahuas del Alto Balsas, Guerrero. 5. At the same meeting, Wayne Lord, member of the Forum, made a statement. Action taken by the Forum 6. At its 17th meeting, on 21 May, the Forum, in adopting the draft recommendations submitted under agenda item 5, identified a number of proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action, and, through the Economic and Social Council, requested States, the United Nations system and intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples, the private sector and NGOs to assist in their implementation (see chap. I.B). 38