Sixty-first session Third Committee Agenda item 68 Report of the Human Rights Council Namibia:* amendments to draft resolution A/C.3/61/L.18/Rev.1 Working group of the Commission on Human Rights to elaborate a draft declaration in accordance with paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994 1. In operative paragraph 1, delete the words “and to the Human Rights Council for the adoption of the text of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. 2. Replace operative paragraph 2 with the following: 2. Decides to defer consideration and action on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to allow time for further consultations thereon; 3. Insert a new operative paragraph 3 reading: 3. Also decides to conclude its consideration of the Declaration before the end of its sixty-first session. * On behalf of States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Group of African States. __________________ __________________  sss1 \* MERGEFORMAT A/C.3/61/L.57/Rev.1 sss1 \* MERGEFORMAT A/C.3/61/L.57/Rev.1 FooterJN \* MERGEFORMAT 06-62520 \* MERGEFORMAT 1 \* MERGEFORMAT 1 FooterJN \* MERGEFORMAT 06-62520 United Nations A/C.3/61/L.57/Rev.1 General Assembly Distr.: Limited 21 November 2006 Original: English jobn \* MERGEFORMAT 06-62520 (E) 211106 Barcode \* MERGEFORMAT *0662520*