Images (37)
Document
| id |
id
364424940
|
|---|---|
| contentType |
contentType
document
|
| source |
source
import
|
Source image fields (6)
Extracted text
OCR Page 1 of 37E:\Cable\Data_Source\Cables\CD032\JUL98\MSGS\M3401547.htm
Page 3 of 9
WITHIN THE UN SYSTEM AND FELT THAT CONSIDERATION SHOULD
BE GIVEN TO RESTRUCTURING THE WGIP SO THAT A DIALOGUE
COULD TAKE PLACE BETWEEN INDIGENOUS GROUPS,
GOVERNMENTS, AND UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION ON ISSUES
SUCH AS THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND
UNCLAS SECTION 02 OF 05 GENEVA 005015
SENSITIVE
PARIS ALSO FOR UNESCO OBSERVER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM, UNHRC-1, US
SUBJECT: WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENO POPULATIONS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INSTEAD OF HAVING THAT FORUM
ENGAGE SOLELY IN IDEOLOGICAL DEBATE. AUSTRALIA
SUGGESTED THAT CANZUS GENEVA MISSIONS MEET AGAIN IN TWO
WEEKS TO CONTINUE THIS DISCUSSION.
6.
(U) IT APPEARS THAT FORMER PERUVIAN AMBASSADOR
URRUTIA WILL RETURN AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE WGDD.
WHILE HE DID NOT ATTEND THE WGIP SESSION, PERU
MISSION MEMBERS STATED THAT URRUTIA HOPED TO CHAIR
THE UPCOMING WGDD SESSION AS LONG AS IT WAS NOT IN
CONFLICT WITH THE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE SESSION ON
HUMAN RIGHTS. PERUVIAN MISSION MEMBERS STATED THAT
AMBASSADOR URRUTIA WOULD CONSULT WITH CANZUS AND THE
NORDIC STATES CONCERNING THE AGENDA FOR THE UPCOMING
SESSION. USDEL RAISED THE POSSIBLE NEED TO CLARIFY
THE SCOPE OF THE DRAFT DECLARATION AT THE UPCOMING
SESSION.
7.
(U) USDEL HOSTED A SERIES OF INFORMAL MEETINGS WITH
U.S. INDIGENOUS GROUPS THAT WERE GENERALLY QUITE
POSITIVE. THESE DISCUSSIONS FOCUSED ON A VARIETY OF
ISSUES INCLUDING THE U.S. POSITIONS ON A PERMANENT
FORUM AND THE DRAFT DECLARATION ON INDIGENOUS RIGHTS.
U.S. GROUPS CONTINUED TO EXPRESS THEIR NHAPPINESS
WITH THE U.S. DOMESTIC POSITION THAT FEDERALLY
RECOGNIZED TRIBES WERE DOMESTIC DEPENDENT NATIONS AND
CALLED FOR THE DECLARATION TO BE ADOPTED AS DRAFTED.
SEVERAL GROUPS ALSO AGAIN ASSERTED THAT THEY HAD A
RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION, WHICH MEANT THEY HAD THE
RIGHT TO FREELY DETERMINE THEIR POLITICAL STATUS.
8. (U) US GROUPS EXPRESSED UNHAPPINESS OVER THE POSITION
TAKEN BY ALFONSO MARTINEZ IN HIS TREATY STUDY THAT
THE CONCEPT OF INDIGENOUS DID NOT APPLY IN AFRICAN-
ASIAN COUNTRIES. THEY STATED THAT THEY BELIEVED THAT
THE CONCEPT OF INDIGENOUS HAD UNIVERSAL APPLICATION
AND THAT IT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT TO CLARIFY THIS ISSUE
AT THE UPCOMING SESSION OF THE WORKING GROUP ON A
DRAFT DECLARATION. USDEL STATED THAT IT WOULD BE
DIFFICULT FOR THE UNITED STATES TO SUPPORT ANY
DECLARATION ON INDIGENOUS RIGHTS WHICH WAS NOT
UNIVERSAL IN APPLICATION.
Relations
belongs_to