4 May 2000
Re. Question no. F 33
Motion no. V 88

Proposed by Hans Pavia Rosing (S), Ellen Kristensen (V), Per Stig Møller (KF), Margrete Auken (SF), Peter Skaarup (DF), Ebbe Kalnæs (CD), Inger Marie Bruun-Vierø (RV), Keld Albrechtsen (EL), Jann Sjursen (KRF), and Tom Behnke (FRI):

'The Parliament welcomes the plans to revise its "Strategy for Danish Support to Indigenous Peoples" of July 1994 in connection with a revision of "Partnership 2000", the overall strategy for Danish development assistance.

'The Parliament considers it of the utmost importance that Denmark retain its position at the cutting edge of progress with regard to policies and legislation concerning indigenous people, a position for which the basis has already been established via the abovementioned Strategy. Parliament expects that this line of policy be maintained in a revised Strategy.

'The Parliament stresses the importance of Denmark's continued active policy to further and promote the social and economic circumstances of indigenous people, and urges the Government

• to continue its close collaboration with the Greenland Home Rule Government, as well as with indigenous peoples' international organisations, in order that Denmark may be placed at the very front regarding the national and multilateral work for indigenous people within the framework of the UN Decade for Indigenous People;
• to continue its efforts to promote the adoption in the UN of the World Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the earliest possible date, as well as to assure the creation of a Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples;
• to continue the endeavour to involve the Nordic countries and the EU partners in a joint formulation of a policy based on the Danish Strategy, and;
• to assure the access to support for indigenous people in countries that are not in the usual sense considered development countries (within the context of development aid programmes), and in this connection to make possible that Danish aid to indigenous people in Central and Eastern Europe be given a higher priority.

The motion was carried by 106 votes; nobody voted 'no', and nobody abstained.