A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 43 6. Welcomes the progress made and the steps taken towards the establishment of a voluntary fund to support the participation of minority representatives, especially from developing countries, in United Nations meetings; 7. Recommends that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights continue operating the fellowship programme for minorities, as it is an excellent tool for building capacity among minority representatives and minority organizations on the essence and working methods of the various human rights mechanisms and instruments, and encourages the Office to identify possible ways of further engaging with minority fellows once the programme has finished; 8. Calls upon the Office of the High Commissioner and the independent expert on minority issues, together with the Working Group on Minorities, through inter-agency cooperation, to engage the various parts of the United Nations system, the international financial institutions, the regional banks, and regional and national development agencies in the effective implementation of the goals and objectives of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities so as to recognize the importance of mainstreaming minority issues as a tool for achieving equal rights, and to actively promote the mainstreaming of a minority perspective in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of relevant policies and programmes. 21st meeting 24 August 2006 [Adopted without a vote. See chap. VII.] 2006/12. Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United Nations, as 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 fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, Recalling General Assembly resolutions 48/163 of 21 December 1993 and 59/174 of 20 December 2004, in which the Assembly proclaimed, respectively, the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People and the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, Recalling also that the General Assembly established as the goal of the Second Decade the further strengthening of international cooperation for the solution of problems faced by indigenous people, by means of action-oriented programmes and specific projects, increased technical assistance and relevant standard-setting activities,