A/HRC/44/35 selection. This was in contrast to the Facilitative Working Group of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in which indigenous peoples selected their own representatives from each of the sociocultural regions. 49. Mr. Deer closed by appealing to the Council to be less political and focus on the rights of all peoples, including indigenous peoples, so that indigenous peoples could have a voice. He advocated for indigenous peoples to be granted observer status, indicating that they were willing to contribute positively to the work of the Council. 50. Ms. Hakala reaffirmed that human rights were indivisible, inalienable and universal. The process was a long and difficult one, with many options and possibilities to promote the participation of indigenous peoples in United Nations meetings and processes on issues that affected them. The next round of hearings for the General Assembly process would take place in 2020 and she was listening very closely to the different proposals being made by participants in the interactive dialogue. Innovative approaches were required, and a compromise needed to be found soon. She highlighted indigenous peoples’ participation in the climate change and Sustainable Development Goals processes and indicated that perhaps a new category of accreditation could indeed be established if there was sufficient will. 51. Ms. Yamada acknowledged the commitment of the indigenous and State representatives that took the floor during the dialogue. She expressed hope that the event would be followed by a truly participative dialogue with more flexible modalities for indigenous peoples’ participation. Many of the concrete answers to the questions posed during the interactive dialogue would only emerge from a continuous, ongoing dialogue between indigenous peoples and States. In that regard, the Expert Mechanism would continue to listen to proposals and transmit them to the Council. 52. She encouraged the Human Rights Council to consider regional dialogues on participation, in order to ensure that voices from all indigenous sociocultural regions were heard. She referred to the example of the universal periodic review, where the participation of indigenous peoples in the Working Group had led to concrete outcomes, with indigenous peoples’ rights having been included in the recommendations. She concluded by indicating that it had been a pleasure for the Expert Mechanism to yield part of its meeting time to the Council so that the dialogue could take place and that all parties should continue working together to strengthen the participation of indigenous peoples in the Council. 53. The Vice-President and Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council closed the intersessional interactive dialogue. 8