OEA - Documento ACTAS-S C 414 26 de 2026

ORGANIZACIÓN DE LOS ESTADOS AMERICANOS OEA/Ser.G

CONSEJO PERMANENTE CP/ACTA 2600/26 (Transcripción)

12 agosto 2026

TRANSCRIPCIÓN DEL ACTA DE LA SESIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA

DEL CONSEJO PERMANENTE DE LA

ORGANIZACIÓN DE LOS ESTADOS AMERICANOS

CELEBRADA EL 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2026

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Nómina de los miembros que asistieron a la sesión 1

Aprobación del proyecto de orden del día 2

Palabras de condolencia al pueblo y Gobierno de Colombia

Por el reciente terremoto 3

Conmemoración del “Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Mundo” 3

Informe anual de presupuesto y gastos del Grupo de Trabajo de Seguimiento

a la Implementación de la Declaración Americana sobre los Derechos de

los Pueblos Indígenas, de conformidad con la sección ix. de la resolución

AG/RES. 3028 (LIV-O/24) 18

Intervenciones de los Estados Miembros 20

Palabras de clausura de la Secretaria General Adjunta de la Organización

de los Estados Americanos, Embajadora Laura Gil Savastano 48

DOCUMENTO CONSIDERADO EN LA SESIÓN

(SE PUBLICA POR SEPARADO)

Intervenciones de los Estados Miembros 20

Palabras de clausura de la Secretaria General Adjunta de la Organización

de los Estados Americanos, Embajadora Laura Gil Savastano 48

DOCUMENTO CONSIDERADO EN LA SESIÓN

(SE PUBLICA POR SEPARADO)

CP/INF. 11012/26, Nota conceptual. Sesión extraordinaria del Consejo Permanente para conmemorar el Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Mundo en el marco de la Novena Semana Interamericana de los Pueblos Indígenas. «Raíces que sostienen, saberes que transforman: derechos, agua, salud, cultura e innovación para un futuro compartido». (12 de agosto de 2026).

CONSEJO PERMANENTE DE LA ORGANIZACIÓN DE LOS ESTADOS AMERICANOS

ACTA DE LA SESIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA

CELEBRADA EL 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2026

En la ciudad de Washington, D. C., a las diez y nueve de la mañana del miércoles 12 de agosto de 2026, celebró sesión extraordinaria el Consejo Permanente de la Organización de los Estados Americanos para conmemorar el “Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Mundo”, en el marco de la celebración de la Novena Semana Interamericana de los Pueblos Indígenas. Presidió la sesión el Embajador Steve Ferrol, Representante Permanente del Commonwealth de Dominica y Presidente del Consejo Permanente. Asistieron los siguientes miembros:

Embajador Samuel Hinds, Representante Permanente de Guyana

Embajadora Jacinth Lorna Henry-Martin, Representante Permanente de Saint Kitts y Nevis

Embajadora Wendy Jeannette Acevedo Castillo, Representante Permanente de El Salvador

Embajadora Mayerlyn Cordero Díaz, Representante Permanente de la República Dominicana

Embajadora Jacinth Lorna Henry-Martin, Representante Permanente de Saint Kitts y Nevis

Embajadora Wendy Jeannette Acevedo Castillo, Representante Permanente de El Salvador

Embajadora Mayerlyn Cordero Díaz, Representante Permanente de la República Dominicana

Embajadora Claudia Lisette Escobar Mejía, Representante Permanente de Guatemala

Embajadora Ana Irene Delgado, Representante Permanente de Panamá

Embajador Víctor Fernandes, Representante Permanente de Barbados

Embajadora Mónica Rosa Irene Palencia Núñez, Representante Permanente del Ecuador

Embajador Edison Antonio Lanza Robatto, Representante Permanente del Uruguay

Embajador Nestor E. Mendez, Representante Permanente de Belize

Embajador Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, Representante Permanente de México

Embajador Rodolfo Enrique Coronado Molina, Representante Permanente del Perú

Embajador José Miguel Castro Bascuñán, Representante Permanente del Chile

Embajador Marlon Faisal Mohamed-Hoesein, Representante Permanente de Suriname

Primera Secretaria Saschele Takesha Griffith, Representante Interina de Trinidad y Tobago

Ministra Consejera Thais Mesquita, Representante Interina del Brasil

Consejero Guido Crilchuk, Representante Interino de la Argentina

Primer Secretario Kyle Vernon Sundstrom, Representante Interino del Canadá

Ministro Consejero Andrés Vargas Ramírez, Representante Interino de Costa Rica

Primera Secretaria Judith-Anne Rolle, Representante Alterna del Commonwealth de Dominica

Consejera Julianna Aynes-Neville, Representante Alterna de los Estados Unidos

Primer Secretario Ignacio Cazaña Portella, Representante Alterno del Paraguay

Consejera Marsena Joanne Ballantyne, Representante Alterna de San Vicente y las Granadinas

Segundo Secretario Emel Alfredo Camargo Mestre, Representante Alterno de Colombia

Consejero Wendell Stallone Carlson Cornwall, Representante Alterno de Grenada

Consejera Marsena Joanne Ballantyne, Representante Alterna de San Vicente y las Granadinas

Segundo Secretario Emel Alfredo Camargo Mestre, Representante Alterno de Colombia

Consejero Wendell Stallone Carlson Cornwall, Representante Alterno de Grenada

Segunda Secretaria Christy Taylor Lightbourn, Representante Alterna del Commonwealth de las Bahamas

Consejera Maysa Rossana Ureña Menacho, Representante Alterna de Bolivia

Primera Secretaria Dalia Clement, Representante Alterna de Santa Lucía

Ministra Consejera María Estela Palacios Bardales, Representante Alterna de Honduras

También estuvieron presentes el Secretario General de la Organización, Embajador Albert R. Ramdin, y la Secretaria General Adjunta, Embajadora Laura Gil Savastano, Secretaria del Consejo Permanente.

El PRESIDENTE: Good morning.

I hereby declare open this special meeting of the Permanent Council, convened pursuant to Article 14 of the Statutes and Article 37.a of the Rules of Procedure [of the Permanent Council], to commemorate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, as part of the Ninth Inter-American Week for Indigenous Peoples.

APROBACIÓN DEL PROYECTO DE ORDEN DEL DÍA

El PRESIDENTE: In accordance with Article 43 of the Rules of Procedure, I submit for the [Permanent] Council’s consideration the draft order of business for this meeting, as set forth in document CP/OD-2600/26.

[El proyecto de orden del día contiene los siguientes puntos:

1. Aprobación del orden del día

2. Conmemoración del Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Mundo

[El proyecto de orden del día contiene los siguientes puntos:

1. Aprobación del orden del día

2. Conmemoración del Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Mundo

• Palabras de apertura: - Señor Albert R. Ramdin, Secretario General de la Organización de los Estados Americanos - Comisionado Riyad Insanally, Relator sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
• Intervenciones de los siguientes ponentes: - Doctor Eloy Terena, Ministro de Pueblos Indígenas de Brasil - Señor Clément Chartier, Embajador ante la Federación Manitoba Métis, Gobierno Nacional de Red River Métis, Canadá - Señora Ana Francisca Pérez Conguache, Comisionada Presidencial y Coordinadora de la Comisión Presidencial contra la Discriminación y el Racismo contra los Pueblos Indígenas de Guatemala - Señora Sara Omi, defensora de los derechos del pueblo indígena Emberá y Presidenta de la Coordinadora de Mujeres Líderes Territoriales de Mesoamérica de Panamá

1. Informe anual de presupuesto y gastos del Grupo de Trabajo de Seguimiento a la Implementación de la Declaración Americana sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas (GT-DADIN), de conformidad con la sección ix. de la resolución AG/RES. 3028 (LIV-O/24)

• Intervenciones a cargo de: - Señor Juan León, Representante de los pueblos indígenas y Copresidente del GT-DADIN - Señora Dulce Patricia Torres Sandoval, Experta designada por los Estados Miembros que aprobaron la Declaración Americana sobre Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Copresidenta del GT-DADIN

1. Intervenciones de los Estados Miembros

2. Palabras de clausura de la Embajadora Laura Gil, Secretaria General Adjunta de la Organización de los Estados Americanos.]

There being no observations, the order of business is hereby approved.

PALABRAS DE CONDOLENCIA AL PUEBLO Y GOBIERNO

DE COLOMBIA POR EL RECIENTE TERREMOTO

El PRESIDENTE: Before proceeding, I wish, on behalf of this Permanent Council, to express our profound solidarity with the people and Government of Colombia following the devastating earthquake that struck the country on Monday, August 10. We are deeply saddened by the loss of lives and by the suffering and destruction caused by this tragedy. We extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones who are mourning the loss of those who perished, and we convey our heartfelt solidarity to all those whose lives have been affected.

We stand firmly with the Colombian people and government and extend our full support and solidarity to the authorities, emergency responders, and communities as they confront the devastating consequences of this disaster and work to assist those in need.

In this solemn moment, I invite the [Permanent] Council to join me in observing a moment of silence in memory of the victims, in solidarity with their families and loved ones, and in recognition of all those affected by this tragedy. Let us stand.

[El Consejo, de pie, observa un minuto de silencio.]

Thank you, and may the souls of those who have gone rest in God’s peace.

CONMEMORACIÓN DEL

“DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS DEL MUNDO”

El PRESIDENTE: Distinguished colleagues, it is in the same spirit of solidarity that we gather today to commemorate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples as part of the Ninth Inter-American Week for Indigenous Peoples, under the theme “Roots that Sustain, Knowledge that Transforms: Rights, Water, Health, Culture, and Innovation for a Shared Future.”

This occasion invites us not only to recognize the invaluable contributions of Indigenous Peoples to our societies, but also to reaffirm our collective commitment to protecting and advancing their rights throughout the Americas. The theme of this year’s observance reminds us that the knowledge, traditions, cultures, and territories of Indigenous Peoples are fundamental to building more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable societies. It also calls our attention to the importance of ensuring meaningful access to rights, health, water, cultural heritage, and opportunities for innovation and development.

The Organization of American States (OAS) has a particular responsibility to continue fostering dialogue, cooperation, and concrete action in support of Indigenous Peoples. Our efforts must contribute to addressing the persistent challenges that continue to affect Indigenous Peoples and communities, and to ensuring their full and effective participation in decision-making that affects their lives, territories, and futures. Today’s meeting offers a valuable opportunity to listen to Indigenous leaders, experts, and representatives and to benefit from their experiences, perspectives, and knowledge. Their voices are essential to shaping policies and initiatives that are responsive, inclusive, and grounded in the realities of Indigenous communities.

I am confident that our dialogue today will strengthen our shared commitment to advancing the rights and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and to building a Hemisphere in which diversity is recognized as a strength, and no one is left behind. I look forward to a rich and constructive exchange.

We now proceed with the commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. I warmly welcome our distinguished panelists and guests joining us for this special meeting of the Permanent Council. We thank you for your presence and for your participation in this special meeting.

To begin, I am pleased to offer the floor to the OAS Secretary General.

Mr. Secretary General, welcome. You have the floor for up to ten minutes.

El SECRETARIO GENERAL: Thank you very much, Chair, also for the generosity of ten minutes. I appreciate that.

To begin, I am pleased to offer the floor to the OAS Secretary General.

Mr. Secretary General, welcome. You have the floor for up to ten minutes.

El SECRETARIO GENERAL: Thank you very much, Chair, also for the generosity of ten minutes. I appreciate that.

First of all, I want to recognize our distinguished permanent representatives to the Organization of American States (OAS); permanent observers; Assistant Secretary General Laura Gil; our esteemed leaders of the Indigenous communities and elders; Dr. Riyad Insanally, [Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples] of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; our colleagues from across the inter-American system; distinguished panelists and guests; ladies and gentlemen.

Before I address the issue at hand, I want to join you, Chair, and member states in expressing solidarity on behalf of the General Secretariat to the people and the Government of Colombia, in the context of the recent earthquakes and the impact it has had on the people of Colombia in several areas. We are in communication with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and we hope to receive more information about the immediate needs and an update on the situation as it develops.

Chair, the sequence of earthquakes in recent times in the Hemisphere, especially in South America—Venezuela, Colombia, with effects also felt in Ecuador, Peru and Panama—as well as in the Caribbean, has required us to ask our department at the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, together with the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, as well as with other geological services, to do a little bit of a study about the sequence and the logical context of it, whether these are related or not.

Those reports, those findings, albeit at a high level, will be presented at a [future] Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction meeting. At that meeting, we also would like to propose some of the changes which were earmarked during the [regular session of the] General Assembly with regard to funding them, as well as to the operations of the Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction. I wanted to share this with you, that this has our full attention, but given the sequence in a very particular timeframe, I think it is important to look at the whole context.

It is a privilege, Chair, to stand before this special session of the Permanent Council as we open the Ninth Inter-American Week for Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme, “Roots that Sustain, Knowledge that Transforms: Rights,” speaks to something profound. It tells us that the foundations of our Hemisphere were laid long before any of our institutions existed—in fact, those foundations existed even before any one of us belonged to this Hemisphere—and that the peoples who laid them continue to teach us today how to live wisely on this Earth.

Therefore, I want to begin by suggesting something simple, and that is that we listen. Before we have agendas, declarations, and policy frameworks, there must be a genuine willingness to hear, to listen to the Indigenous elders and peoples. That is why the presence of Indigenous leaders and elders in this chamber carries such weight. Their voices are not a courtesy, an addition to our proceedings; they are the reason we are here and we are meeting today.

Chair, the knowledge that Indigenous Peoples carry is not a relic; it is alive, it is adaptive, and it is urgently relevant. We see it in the way Indigenous communities manage water systems, protect forests, and govern themselves through consensus and accountability. At a time when our planet faces mounting environmental and social pressures, these are not quaint traditions. They are sophisticated solutions that the rest of the world is only beginning to appreciate.

We cannot speak honestly about the heritage without also speaking about what threatens it. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights have documented with—I must say—painful clarity the discrimination, exclusion, and violence that Indigenous Peoples continue to face. Indigenous women bear a disproportionate share of this burden. Indigenous land defenders risk their lives to protect what the rest of us benefit from. These are not abstract statistics; these are realities. They are lived realities of the people whose rights we are gathered here to affirm.

Indigenous communities are also among the most vulnerable when decisions about the lands and about the natural resources are made without them. In my view, consultation is not a management or bureaucratic step; it is a right in these cases. Meaningful participation is not an aspiration; it is a standard. When projects proceed without the free, prior, and informed consent of affected Indigenous communities, the consequences are felt for generations.

The American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DADIN) stands as this Hemisphere’s most significant formal response to these realities. It was seventeen years in the making, and I am proud of the role the OAS played in bringing it to fruition. I remember, in a different capacity in 2005, participating in the first negotiating meeting held outside our headquarters in Antigua, Guatemala, where I stated that I wanted to see an Americas where Indigenous rights were no longer a matter for negotiation, but a living reality. That aspiration has guided my work ever since.

We now have tools that did not exist before. The Working Group on Monitoring the Implementation of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (GT-DADIN), in operation since 2024, brings together member states and Indigenous representatives to track and advance the implementation of the DADIN across the region. Its first regular meeting, held in Mexico City in 2025, produced concrete results: elected authorities, approved rules of procedure, and a biennial work plan. That is real progress. But progress on paper only becomes justice when it reaches the communities that the DADIN was written to protect. There is still a lot of work to be done, and I believe this week offers us an opportunity to close that gap, at least in some elements.

The authorities of the GT-DADIN will participate in a range of events and dialogues throughout the Inter-American Week [for Indigenous Peoples], creating space for exchange, accountability, and renewed commitment.

I also want to be direct about what is needed going forward. Implementation requires resources. The financial sustainability of the GT-DADIN is not a technical footnote; it is a political choice made by member states. The member states that adopted the DADIN must ensure that their commitment is matched by the financial support necessary to make the DADIN work in practice. Good intentions without investment will not be sufficient.

I want to thank Ambassador Gil, Assistant Secretary General, and her team, as well as member states and other organizations that have worked to organize this week’s activities. The care with which this Inter-American Week [for Indigenous Peoples] is curated reflects an understanding that culture, knowledge, and identity are not peripheral to our mission; they are central to it.

I leave you with this thought: the roots that sustain us are not only beneath the ground; they are in the people who have tended this land, carried its stories and defended its future across centuries. Our obligation is not simply to recognize them; it is to stand firmly beside them.

I thank you very much, and I hope that we can make progress with regard to the DADIN.

Thank you very much, Chair.

El PRESIDENTE: Thank you, Mr. Secretary General, for your remarks and for your contribution to today’s commemoration.

Now, I am pleased to offer the floor to Commissioner Riyad Insanally, Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Commissioner Insanally, welcome to the Permanent Council. We appreciate your participation in this commemoration. You now have the floor for up to ten minutes.

El RELATOR SOBRE LOS DERECHOS DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS DE LA COMISIÓN INTERAMERICANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS: Ambassador Steve Ferrol, Chair of the Permanent Council, distinguished permanent representatives and alternates, Secretary General Albert Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General Laura Gil, distinguished panelists, Indigenous authorities and representatives of civil society, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, [good morning].

Permit me to add on behalf of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) our own expression of sympathy and solidarity with the Government and people of Colombia in the wake of the devastating earthquake.

Chair, it is an honor for me to address this Permanent Council, in my capacity as Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as we commemorate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples within the framework of the Ninth Inter-American Week for Indigenous Peoples. I thank the Chair and the Secretariat for convening this special meeting, and I am grateful to the Working Group on Monitoring the Implementation of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (GT-DADIN) for sustaining this space of dialogue year after year.

This year’s theme, “Roots that Sustain, Knowledge that Transforms,” invites us to look beyond a single right or a single sector, and to recognize what Indigenous Peoples have long known that rights, water, health, culture, and innovation are not separate compartments but a single component. When one thread is pulled, whether by dispossession of land, contamination of a river, or the erosion of a language, the whole fabric is weakened. When that fabric is respected and strengthened, entire communities benefit. This is the understanding that guides the work of the IACHR and must guide the work of the Organization [of American States] in the year ahead and in the years to follow.

Chair, distinguished representatives, human rights are the roots from which everything else grows. Since the IACHR created the first thematic rapporteurship in its history to focus on Indigenous Peoples in 1990, and since the General Assembly adopted the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DADIN) in 2016, the inter-American system has built a body of standards recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ rights to self-determination, to collective property over their lands, territories, and natural resources, and to free, prior, and informed consultation and consent.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) has been decisive in building this body of law, from Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua in 2001, the first ruling to recognize Indigenous communal property under the American Convention [on Human Rights], through Yakye Axa v Paraguay and Sawhoyamaxa v. Paraguay, which tied the loss of ancestral territory to the very survival of Indigenous communities, to Lhaka Honhat Association v. Argentina in 2020, where the I/A Court H.R. recognized, for the first time in a contentious case, the autonomous rights of Indigenous Peoples to a healthy environment, adequate food, water, and cultural identity. These are not abstract principles; they are the legal foundation on which water, health, culture, and innovation depend, because none of these can be fully realized on territory that has been taken, contaminated, or exploited.

Ten years after the adoption of the DADIN, implementation remains uneven. I welcome the continued work of the GT-DADIN, whose inputs are of great value, and I reiterate the commitment of the IACHR to supporting member states in translating these standards into domestic law and practice.

Turning to water, water is the clearest expression of the bond between Indigenous Peoples and their territories. For Indigenous communities across the Hemisphere, rivers, lakes, and aquifers are not merely resources; they are sources of life, memory, and spiritual meaning, cared for through generations of sustainable practice. Yet the IACHR continues to receive information about the effects of extractive industries, agribusiness, and infrastructure projects that contaminate water sources or restrict access to them, without adequate consultation. Women and girls bear a disproportionate share of this burden, walking longer distances for water and absorbing the health consequences of contamination.

States must guarantee Indigenous Peoples’ participation in the management and protection of water resources, recognizing that the stewardship Indigenous Peoples have exercised for centuries is not an obstacle to development, but a model for the use of water that the rest of the Hemisphere urgently needs.

In terms of health, this year, the United Nations dedicates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples to honoring Indigenous midwives, recognizing their role in safeguarding life and well-being. This approach resonates with the general recommendation No. 39 (2022) on the rights of Indigenous women and girls of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which calls on States to recognize Indigenous women’s right to their own traditional medicines and health practices, and to place Indigenous midwives at the center of strategies to reduce maternal and child mortality.

For too many Indigenous women, particularly in rural and remote areas, access to health services remains marked by geographic, linguistic, and cultural barriers, and maternal mortality among Indigenous women remains disproportionately high in several countries of the region. Indigenous midwives and traditional healers have sustained the health of their communities for generations, often filling gaps that the States have left unaddressed. Rather than treating traditional medicine as a substitute to be replaced, States should recognize it, resource it, and build intercultural health systems that respect Indigenous knowledge alongside biomedical care. This is not a matter of preference; it is a matter of the right to health being accessible and culturally appropriate.

I turn to culture. Culture is where knowledge is preserved and transmitted through generations, and it is inseparable from Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination. As the IACHR recognized in its 2021 thematic report “Right to Self-Determination of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples,” the first of its kind to address comprehensively the scope of this right, self-determination encompasses Indigenous Peoples’ own models of governance, their own legal systems, and their own priorities for cultural, social, and economic development.

Article XXVIII of the DADIN recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ right to the recognition, ownership, and protection of their cultural, artistic, spiritual, technological, and scientific heritage. Languages, oral traditions, sacred sites, and ceremonial practices are not relics of the past; they are living systems that continue to shape how communities relate to one another and to their territories, and their preservation is itself an exercise of self-determination. Their loss is rarely accidental; it follows from forced displacement, from the absence of bilingual and intercultural education, and from the failure to protect sacred sites from extractive and infrastructure projects. Protecting Indigenous cultures requires deliberate, sustained investment, not occasional commemoration.

Finally, innovation. Indigenous Peoples have always innovated, in agriculture, in medicine, in the management of ecosystems, and in forms of collective governance that have sustained communities for centuries. As the 2021 thematic report “Right to Self-Determination of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples” of the IACHR made clear, defining one’s own priorities for economic and technological development is itself a constituent element of that right. The challenge before us is to ensure that this knowledge is respected as such, rather than extracted without consent or benefit-sharing. As new technologies reshape how knowledge is gathered, stored, and used, this protection becomes more urgent, not less. Innovation for a shared future must mean Indigenous Peoples as partners and rights-holders in defining their future, not as sources of knowledge to be mined.

Chair, honorable delegates, the roots that sustain us and the knowledge that transforms us belong to Indigenous Peoples as much as to any of our societies. Recognizing this is not an act of generosity; it is an act of justice long overdue. On this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the IACHR reaffirms its deep commitment to the promotion and protection of the rights of Indigenous Peoples throughout the Hemisphere. We stand ready to continue working with member states and above all with Indigenous Peoples themselves, whose voices must remain at the center of this agenda.

I thank you for your kind attention.

El PRESIDENTE: Thank you, Commissioner Insanally, for your presentation and for sharing your perspective with this [Permanent] Council.

Esteemed colleagues, in accordance with our order of business, we shall now proceed with the interventions by our distinguished speakers. It is my pleasure to welcome Mr. Marcos Kaingang, Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil.

Mr. Executive Secretary, thank you for joining us for this commemoration. You have the floor for ten minutes.

El SECRETARIO EJECUTIVO DEL MINISTERIO DE PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS DEL BRASIL: Bom dia a todos e a todas. Me escutam?

El PRESIDENTE: Yes, we do.

El SECRETARIO EJECUTIVO DEL MINISTERIO DE PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS DEL BRASIL: Perfeito. Vou falar em português. Vou p