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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/133
18 February 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)]
48/133.
International Year of the World’s Indigenous People,
1993
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United Nations set forth
in the Charter is the achievement of international cooperation in solving
international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian
character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all without discrimination as to race, sex, language
or religion,
Recognizing and respecting the value and the diversity of cultures, as
well as the cultural heritage and the forms of social organization of the
world’s indigenous people,
Recalling its resolution 45/164 of 18 December 1990, in which it
proclaimed 1993 the International Year of the World’s Indigenous People, with
a view to strengthening international cooperation for the solution of problems
faced by indigenous communities in areas such as human rights, the
environment, development, education and health,
Conscious of the need to improve the economic, social and cultural
situation of the indigenous people with full respect for their distinctiveness
and their own initiatives,
Appreciative of the contributions made to the voluntary fund for the
Year opened by the Secretary-General,
Noting the establishment of the fund for the development of indigenous
peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean as one kind of support for the
objectives of the Year,
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