United Nations
A/RES/57/191
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/553)]
57/191. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
The General Assembly,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 2000/22 of 28 July 2000, in
which the Council established the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, as well
as Council decision 2001/316 of 26 July 2001 concerning the election/appointment
of the sixteen members of the Forum and other organizational matters,
Recalling also its resolution 56/140 of 19 December 2001 on the International
Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, in which it welcomed Council
decision 2001/316,
Saluting the successful holding of the historic first annual session of the
Forum at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 13 to 24 May 2002,
Having considered the report of the Forum on its first session, 1
Wishing to strengthen, within the mandate of the Council, the interactive
dialogue and partnership between the Forum and Governments, specialized
agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, other relevant
international and regional organizations, indigenous people and indigenous peoples,
as well as civil society at large,
Welcoming the creation of the Inter-Agency Support Group for the Forum,
Underlining the importance of securing adequate financial and secretariat
support for the activities of the Forum, while reaffirming that the financing of the
Forum shall be provided from within existing resources through the regular budget
of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, funds and programmes and
through such voluntary contributions as may be donated,
Recalling the decision of the Council taken in paragraph 8 of its resolution
2000/22 to conduct a review, without prejudging any outcome, of all existing
mechanisms, procedures and programmes within the United Nations concerning
indigenous issues, including the Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the
Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, with a view to
rationalizing activities, avoiding duplication and overlap and promoting
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Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 23 (E/2002/43/Rev.1).