The Permanent Forum welcomes the resolution of the seventeenth Ibero-American summit of Heads of State which calls for a world conference on indigenous peoples, to be organized by the United Nations, and urges States to support this initiative at the General Assembly level.
The Government of Spain expresses its support to the world conference in its report to the 8th Session.
On Tuesday 16 November, 2010, the Third Committee of the General Assembly adopted a resolution (A/RES/65/198) on indigenous peoples' issues, where, the General Assembly decides to organize a World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014.