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Document Type: Final Resolution

Date: 2007 Sep

Session: 6th Regular Session (2007 Sep)

Agenda Item:

Topic: Indigenous Peoples

Human Rights Council

Resolution 6/16. Informal meeting to discuss the most appropriate mechanisms to continue the work of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling that the Human Rights Council institution-building text, annexed to

resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007, stated that the “Council will decide at its sixth session

(first session of its second cycle) on the most appropriate mechanisms to continue the

work of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations…,

Decides to request the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on

Human Rights to convene an informal meeting in Geneva, for a day and a half, open

to the participation of States, indigenous peoples and other stakeholders preceding the

resumed sixth session in December of the Council to exchange views on the most

appropriate mechanisms to continue the work of the Working Group on Indigenous

Populations.

[Adopted without a vote] 21st meeting

28 September 2007

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