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6.
Stresses the relevance for the solution of problems faced by
indigenous communities of the recommendations contained in chapter 26 of
Agenda 21, 2/ including their implementation;
7.
Notes with satisfaction the holding at Manila of a Global Youth
Earth-saving Summit which, by its reaffirmation of the role of traditional
cultures in the preservation of the environment, underscored the right to
cultural survival;
8.
Welcomes the proposal for a gathering of indigenous youth in 1995,
an "Indigenous Youth Cultural Olympics", as a follow-up to the Year, to be
held in conjunction with the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous
People and the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, to reaffirm the
value of traditional cultures, folk arts and rituals as effective expressions
of respective national identities and as a foundation for a shared vision for
peace, freedom and equality;
9.
Stresses that the governmental and intergovernmental activities
undertaken within the context of the Year and beyond should take fully into
account the development needs of indigenous people and that the Year should
contribute to enhancing and facilitating the coordination capabilities of
Member States for collecting and analysing information;
10.
Notes that there is a continuing need within the United Nations
system to aggregate data specific to indigenous people by means of enhancing
and facilitating the coordination capabilities of Member States for collecting
and analysing such data;
11.
Requests the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and
Protection of Minorities, at its forty-sixth session, to complete its
consideration of the draft universal declaration on the rights of indigenous
peoples and to submit its report to the Commission on Human Rights at its
fifty-first session;
12.
Requests the Coordinator for Year, in the report to be submitted
to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session on the activities developed
and the results achieved within the context of the Year, to include an account
of the response of the United Nations system to the needs of indigenous
people;
13.
Expresses its appreciation for the work undertaken for the Year
by Governments, the Coordinator for the Year, the International Labour
Organisation, the Goodwill Ambassador, Ms. Rigoberta Menchu, indigenous and
non-governmental organizations, the Commission on Human Rights and the Working
Group on Indigenous Populations.
85th plenary meeting
20 December 1993
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Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and
Vol. 1/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1) (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted
by the Conference, resolution 1, annex II.