## Original in: /APC/CARNET/GUATENEWS
## author : guatnews@web.apc.org
## date : 25.05.93
GUATEMALA TO HOST MEETING OF WORLD'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Noticias de Guatemala, May 17 1993 An international meeting of
indigenous people will be held in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, from
May 24 to 28. To-date the attendance of representatives from
Norway, Finland, the Philippines, Canada, Ecuador, Brazil,
Bolivia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Guatemala has been
confirmed. Supporting organizations include the Continental
Movement of 500 Years of Indigenous, Black and Popular
Resistance; the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the
Amazon Basin; the Cordillera People's Alliance; Asia Indigenous
People's Pact; the Coordination of Mapuche Organizations; the
International Indian Treaty Council; the Indian Council of South
America; and the International Organization of Indigenous
Resource Development. Among the main themes to be discussed are a
petition to the United Nations to declare this the decade of
indigenous people, and universal recognition of the rights of the
world's ethnic groups.