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Indigenous Peoples - February 2015

Fifteenth Meeting of Negotiations for Points of Consensus Concludes


The Fifteenth Meeting of Negotiations in the Quest for Points of Consensus was held at OAS headquarters from February 9-11, 2015, in fulfillment of operative paragraph 3 of resolution AG/RES. 2867 (XLIV-O/14).

Culmina la XV Reunión de Negociaciones para la Búsqueda de Consensos

Chair of the Working Group, Ambassador Diego Pary Rodríguez, Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the OAS, presided over the plenary. The Working Group's Vice Chair, Ambassador Elisa Ruiz Díaz Bareiro, Permanent Representative of Paraguay, also took part.

Four representatives elected at the last Meeting of Negotiations took part as well, pursuant to Permanent Council resolution CP/RES. 951 (1691/09), which regulates the operations of the Specific Fund to support preparation of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In all, twenty-three indigenous people's representatives from various member states attended the Meeting. The sessions were webcast live over the OAS website, allowing representatives of indigenous peoples across the Hemisphere to follow them from their own communities.

The following were the outcomes of the Fifteenth Meeting of Negotiations in the Quest for Points of Consensus:

Articles approved: XX (paragraph 2), XXIX (paragraphs 2 and 4), and XXXI (paragraph 1), this latter article approved in its entirety.

Articles that were approved pending consultation by the delegations: III, IV, XXIX (paragraphs 1 and 5). Finally, the following articles were considered, with approval pending: XVI (paragraph 2), XVIII (paragraph 2), XX (paragraph 1), XXIX (paragraphs 3 and 6), and XXX in its entirety.

The Sixteenth Meeting of Negotiations will be held from March 9-11, 2015, at OAS headquarters (See convocation notice).

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