E/2007/43 E/C.19/2007/12 11. The Permanent Forum appoints Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Mr. Pavel Sulyandziga as special rapporteurs to elaborate papers on indigenous peoples and relevant thematic issues relating to sustainable development (for example, sustainable agriculture, land, rural development, drought and desertification), for consideration by the Commission on Sustainable Development and for the submission of its reports to the Secretary-General and to represent the Permanent Forum in the Commission’s interactive dialogues with United Nations agencies. The Commission is urged to invite a member of the Permanent Forum to attend its annual sessions. 12. The Permanent Forum reiterates its recommendation, contained in its report on its fifth session, 5 calling upon donor agencies to provide support for the representation and participation of indigenous peoples at the sessions of the Commission on Sustainable Development. The Permanent Forum calls upon the Partnership for Indigenous Peoples and Environment, which was launched in 2003, to take the lead in revitalizing the effective participation of indigenous peoples at the sixteenth session of the Commission and future meetings by, inter alia, organizing national and regional preparatory meetings, side-events, partnership fair activities and other learning and action events. 13. The Permanent Forum expresses its appreciation to Special Rapporteurs, Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Mr. Parshuram Tamang for their report entitled “Oil palm and other commercial tree plantations, monocropping: impacts on indigenous peoples’ land tenure and resource management systems and livelihoods”. 6 The Permanent Forum recommends that further analysis be undertaken to include information received and gathered from Governments, the logging and plantation sectors and their networks, indigenous peoples, non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental bodies, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Forum on Forests. The Permanent Forum reappoints Ms. Tauli-Corpuz to continue as the Special Rapporteur to draft the follow-up report, using existing resources, to be presented at the 2008 session of the Permanent Forum. 14. The Permanent Forum requests its secretariat to ensure wide circulation of the above-mentioned report and invites States, members of the Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues, non-governmental organizations and the private sector, the secretariats of the United Nations Forum on Forests and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to provide comments and additional information and data to both the Special Rapporteur and the secretariat of the Permanent Forum. The contributions can include existing policies, projects and funding related to plantations and forestry, implementation of policies and case studies of good practices. 15. The Permanent Forum endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the first Expert Seminar on Treaties, Agreements and other Constructive Arrangements between States and Indigenous Peoples, hosted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva from 15 to 17 December 2003. __________________ 5 6 4 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 23 (E/2006/43), chap. I.B, para. 133. E/C.19/2007/CRP.6 (English only). 07-37675