Responses
The secretariat of the Convention worked in
partnership with the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity to present a side event during the fifth meeting of the Working Group on Article 8(j) drawing attention to the international expert meetings facilitated by the Permanent Forum (January 2007) and another relevant expert meeting facilitated by the secretariat of the Convention (September 2007), both of which considered indigenous peoples’ issues relevant to the negotiation and elaboration of an international regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing.