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The Permanent Forum urges developed countries to adopt national processes to implement the Goals with the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples within those countries.
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The Government of Spain reports: “With regard to paragraph 8 of the report of the Permanent Forum on its fifth session, at the urging of the Governments of Spain and Ecuador, the Sixteenth Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, held in Montevideo in November 2006, adopted the following paragraph of the Montevideo Declaration: “We instruct the Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB) to launch an initiative which, within the framework of the Millennium goals and objectives, will make it possible to develop specific indicators for indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples as a useful tool for progress in combating, with their consent, the exclusion and poverty in which they live in many countries of the region.”
Final Report of UNPFII Session 5 (2006)
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