Thursday Following is a summary of the Indigenous Caucus Strategy before the Working Group .
Governments consider suspension of rules.
Selected delegation from the Indigenous Caucus met with Julian Berger, repatteur for the Secretariat of Working Group to schedule a time to meet with the Chairman Ambassador Uruttia. Indigenous peoples should be allowed to participate not as observers. The Indigenous Caucus was informed by a representative of the Bolivian government that they had approached the Chair to propose a suspension of the rules for this Working Group. In the meeting with the Indigenous representatives Chairman Uruttia denied that this had occurred. The Chairman recommended that the Indigenous Caucus follow through with those governments who support the Indigenous peoples joint statement and requests.