The Commission recognized the need to defend the rights of indigenous peoples to their territories and resources, their cultures and identity, their traditional knowledge and their right to self-determination, at both the local and the national level.
34. 委员会承认有必要在地方一级和国家一级维护土著人民对其领土和资源、其文化和身份特征、其传统知识的权利，及其自决权。