At its 38th plenary meeting, on 25 July 2005, the Economic and Social Council took note of Commission on Human Rights decision 2005/110 of 20 April 2005,59 and endorsed the Commission’s recommendation to authorize the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene an expert seminar during 2005, to which representatives of indigenous peoples and Governments as well as the Special Rapporteur of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights would be invited, in order to give further attention to and to discuss in detail the many political, legal, economic, social and cultural aspects and matters relating to the study on indigenous peoples’ permanent sovereignty over natural resources65 as well as to the study entitled “Indigenous peoples and their relationship to land”.66
