E/2008/43 E/C.19/2008/13 nations and Member States to support the continuing development of sports, traditional games and culture. 117. The Permanent Forum welcomes the report on the International Workshop on Perspectives of Relationships between Indigenous Peoples and Industrial Corporations, 9 organized jointly by the Administration of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, and the secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, with support from the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, held in Salekhard, Russian Federation, on 2 and 3 July 2007, and calls upon States to fully support and accept the recommendations contained in the report. 118. The Permanent Forum decides to appoint Carlos Mamani Condori, Elisa Canqui Mollo and Pavel Sulyandziga, members of the Forum, as special rapporteurs to conduct a study, without financial implications, on indigenous peoples and corporations. The study will examine the existing mechanisms and practices, review policies on indigenous peoples, examine good practices and submit a report to the Forum at its eighth session in 2009. The Forum calls upon indigenous peoples’ representatives, States, corporations, international financial institutions and the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Development Programme and the Global Compact, to engage in active cooperation with the special rapporteurs. 119. With regard to paragraph 139 of the report of the Permanent Forum on its sixth session, 10 the Forum calls upon Governments, indigenous peoples organizations, regional administrations and local self-governance organs of the countries of the Arctic region to take an active part in the discussion on the Arctic region at the eighth session of the Forum. The Forum urges the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations to give special consideration to applications from indigenous participants from the Arctic region. 120. The Permanent Forum takes note of the report on the International Seminar on Indigenous Peoples and the Environment, organized jointly by the Administration of the Khabarovsk Krai, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East and the secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, with support from the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, held in Khabarovsk, Russian Federation, in September 2007, and endorses the recommendations contained in the report. 121. The Permanent Forum invites the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Special Rapporteur on the right to development to attend the eighth session of the Forum. 122. The Permanent Forum decides to hold a half-day region-specific discussion on North America at its ninth session in 2010. 123. The Permanent Forum also decides to hold a half-day discussion on indigenous peoples and forests at its ninth session. 124. The Permanent Forum welcomes the resolution of the seventeenth IberoAmerican summit of Heads of State which calls for a world conference on __________________ 9 10 08-33882 E/C.19/2008/5/Add.6. E/2007/43-E/C.19/2007/12. 19