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14.
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare an annotated agenda for the
twenty-fifth session of the Working Group on the basis of paragraph 13 of the present resolution;
15.
Invites the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, after consultation
with the Chairperson-Rapporteur, to inform participants at the twenty-fifth session of the
Working Group about the organization of issues under agenda item 4 in advance of the session,
in order to facilitate a more active dialogue among the various participants;
16.
Requests the Working Group to continue to review at its twenty-fifth session,
under draft agenda item 5, the final drafts of the guidelines on the heritage of indigenous people
and on free, prior and informed consent;
17.
Calls upon all States to give specific attention to the promotion and protection of
the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and to ensure that the principle of free, prior and
informed consent is fully applied when protecting their traditional knowledge in their relations
with non-indigenous sections of the population;
18.
Requests Miguel Alfonso Martínez to submit to the twenty-fifth session of the
Working Group under draft agenda item 4 (c), or to any future expert advice mechanism under
the appropriate agenda item, the additional working paper requested by the Sub-Commission
in its resolution 2004/15 of 15 April 2004 on the issue of indigenous peoples and conflict
prevention and resolution;
19.
Invites all States to submit to the Working Group at its twenty-fifth session any
information they deem fit to provide on the mechanisms for conflict resolution and prevention
available to indigenous peoples living under their jurisdiction, in case of existing or potential
conflict situations based on the exercise of their rights in their relations with non-indigenous
entities or individuals;
20.
Endorses the recommendation of the Working Group to request the Office of the
High Commissioner to organize two technical workshops, one to produce a final draft of the
guidelines relating to indigenous peoples’ heritage, and another to prepare guidelines on the
principle of free, prior and informed consent based on the work undertaken by the Working
Group during recent years, and to this effect, to take the necessary steps to include in the budget
for 2007 the necessary appropriations to ensure that these workshops are held in Geneva not later
than the end of 2007; and recommends that the Office publish and disseminate widely the
guidelines on free, prior and informed consent;
21.
Decides, in view of the discussions that took place under the principal theme of
its twenty-fourth session, to invite the Office of the High Commissioner to organize in 2007, as
a matter of priority and in consultation with the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group,
a second workshop on indigenous peoples, mining and other private sector companies and
human rights, with a view to preparing guidelines based on respect for the cultures, traditions
and the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples, and for the principle of free, prior and informed
consent;
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