Source: Recommendations adopted by The Seminar on Indigenous Peoples' Production and Trade, Copenhagen 15-17 January 1996
| The Seminar on Indigenous Peoples' Production and Trade held in Copenhagen 15-17
January 1996 discussed and debated questions concerning existing international operative
mechanisms with relevance to the Indigenous Peoples' production and trade and what can be
done to strengthen the Indigenous Peoples' product access to the world market and promote
fair trade relations. The Seminar was a Nordic contribution to the International Decade of Indigenous Peoples, initiated by the Greenland Home Rule Government and arranged by the Nordic Council of Ministers, which is a political body for the co-operation of the governments in Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden and the autonomous areas of Greenland, the Faroes Islands and the Aaland Islands. At the conference there were representatives from numerous indigenous and international organizations worldwide. The Seminar recommended the following: - that all governments recognize and fulfil, their commitments towards the Indigenous Peoples' rights to a sustainable utilization of their natural, economical, social and cultural resources - that the principle of sustainable development be adhered to and not undermined by special interest groups The Seminar participants took note of the special role of the Nordic countries in the international community singling out the Indigenous Peoples' cause as a key issue in nature conservation and management, the preservation of cultural diversity, as well as an important parameter of the overriding human rights concerns. The Seminar specifically welcomes the Nordic Council of Ministers' initiative to carry out a study on the international restrictions on trade with Arctic products with the goal to repeal restrictions that are not in accordance with current conventions ....... Bearing this in mind the Seminar urged the Nordic Council of Ministers and the
governments of the Nordic Countries: |
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