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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 16:39:00 +0100
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From: NetWarriors/WarriorNET Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Zealand in with Brazil
NETWARRIORS REPORTS ON SELF-DETERMINATION
CALLS ON TECHNICAL ARGUMENT FOR INDIGENOUS DELEGATES TO WORK WITH
DEMOCRATIC STATE VS. ?
please excuse our spelling - trying to type and get these to you as soon as
they are put to the air
In solidarity with you...
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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS WORKING GROUP ON THE DRAFT UNITED NATIONS
DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
NEW ZEALAND STATEMENT
Mr. Chairman
The question of self-determiantion is central to the draft Declaration. The
right to self-determination is of fundamental significance in existing
international instruments. It is therefore only appropriate that it be the
subject of careful and extensive consideration. Such consideration is
consistent with an emerging usage at international law, which sees the
right of self-determination applying to groups within existing States.
New Zealand has given careful thought to the question of the right to
self-determination. Many of the practical and contextual manifestions of
this right will be elaborated as we work towards the adoption of a
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We believe the very
process of working on a Declaration will prove mutually benificial in
assisting those involved in gaining a better, and hopefrully common,
underastanding of the implications of this right.
The discussion of this issue may prove controversial but it could lead to
groundbreaking understandings of the nature of the relationship between
indigenous peoples and the sStates in which they live. In new Zealand,
recent developments have led to a better understanding of the context and
setting in whic h the right to self-determination can be expressed. many
of New Zealands's laws and policies, especially where these relaqte to the
partnership enshrined in the Treaty of Waitangi, are already consistent
with underlying principles found elsewhere in the draft.
The New Zealand approach to ARticle 3 reflects these developments. On this
basis, we offer the following comments on Article 3:
* New Zealand supports the right of indigenous people to exist as a
community with their own cultural identity, and to be involved in
determining their own economic and solcial destiny.
* In New Zealand there are a number of areas where special provisions have
been made to encourage Maori authority over matters which directly concern
Maori. The government is committed to working with Maori authority over
matters which directly concern maori. The Government is committed to
working with Maori to find further ways to give Maori greater control over
issues of specific cultural or social concern to Maori within New Zealand's
general legal and constitutional framework.
* The Treaty of Waitangi si the founding document of the nation State of
New Zealand, and continue to guide both Maori and the Crown in their
dealings one with the other.
* Subject to any draft Declaration being consistent with domestic
understanding of the relationship between Maori and the Crownf(representing
all New Zealanders), and respecting the territorial integrity of democratic
States and their constitutional frameworks where these meet current
international human rights standards, new Zealand could accept the
inclusion in the draft Declaration of a right of self-determination for
indigenous peoples.
* We would add that New Zealand reserves the right to approve or reject
the specific conseequential rights or obligations flowing from
self-determination in the draft Declaration. We look forward to continuing
to discuss other articles and work towards reaching consensus on them.
* New Zealand considers that, consistent with an emerging usage at
international law, any right to self-determination included in the
Declaration shall not be construed as authorising or encouraging any action
which would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial
integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States, possessed
of a government representative of the whole people belonging to the
territory, without distinction as to race, creed or colour. The
Declaration should clearly reflect these principles.
In closing, Mr. Chairman, let me repeat that the very process of working
together on a Declaration is ground-breaking work. It is New Zealand's
hope that that ground will prove fertile.
Than you.
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