A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 47 Recalling its resolution 2005/23 of 11 August 2005, 1. Expresses its deep appreciation to all members of the Working Group for the important and constructive work accomplished during the session and for the new working methods introduced, with the purpose of facilitating a more interactive dialogue during its annual sessions; 2. Reiterates its view, in the context of the ongoing process of reform of the United Nations human rights activities, bodies and mechanisms recently initiated by the Secretary-General, that in reviewing the activities, bodies and mechanisms relating to indigenous peoples, account should be taken of the fact that the mandates of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues are clearly distinct and complementary and that consequently none of these three bodies should be discontinued, and invites its superior bodies to endorse this view in the light of the already established cooperation among the three mechanisms; 3. Recommends that the item “indigenous issues” be automatically included in the agenda of the Human Rights Council and stresses the need for an expert body to provide the Council with advice on the promotion, protection and realization of the rights of indigenous peoples; also recommends that the principal functions of this body should be to produce in-depth, action-orientated reports and studies and to engage in the elaboration of norms and other international standards relating to the promotion, protection and realization of the rights of indigenous peoples; and further recommends that the expert body should report to the Sub-Commission or any future expert advice mechanism; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the report of the Working Group on its twenty-fourth session (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/22) to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, indigenous organizations, Governments and concerned intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, as well as to the Human Rights Council, all thematic rapporteurs, special representatives, independent experts and working groups existing as special procedures under the authority of the Human Rights Council, and to all the treaty bodies; 5. Reiterates its invitation to the treaty bodies and all thematic special procedures to advise the Working Group on how they take into account, in their work and in accordance with their respective mandates, the promotion and protection of indigenous peoples’ rights and in this context further invites them to take duly into account paragraphs 3 and 4 of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/58 of 20 April 2004; 6. Requests the current Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group to make an oral presentation to the fourteenth annual meeting of special rapporteurs/representatives, independent experts and chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council to substantiate the need for further cooperation between the special procedures and the Working Group and to propose possible modalities for further developing this much-needed cooperation;