A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/53/130 23 February 1999 Fifty-third session Agenda item 107 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/622)] 53/130. United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 40/131 of 13 December 1985, establishing the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, and 50/156 of 21 December 1995, in which it decided that the Fund should also be used to assist representatives of indigenous communities and organizations to participate in the deliberations of the open-ended inter-sessional working group of the Commission on Human Rights established pursuant to Commission resolution 1995/32 of 3 March 19951 with the sole purpose of elaborating a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous people, taking into consideration the draft declaration annexed to resolution 1994/45 of 26 August 1994 of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the Commission on Human Rights,2 Recalling also that one of the objectives of the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People is to consider the establishment of a permanent forum for indigenous people in the United Nations system, 1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/1995/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A. 2 See E/CN.4/1995/2-E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/56, chap. II, sect. A. 99-76909 /...