WORKING PLAN

of the Consultative Committee of Finno-Ugric Peoples

For 1999

1. Meetings of the Consultative Committee

• March 3-4, Kudymkar, Komi-Permyakia Autonomous district
• October 13-14, Estonia

2. Meetings of Co-ordinators

• February, Izhevsk, Udmurtia, 2.-3.2.1999
• August, Finland, 27.-28.8.1999

3. International seminars:

• Hungary, March 22-24 1999, Budapest
  Seminar on use of mass media, information services, radio and TV in the Finno-Ugric countries and regions
• Hungary, April 19-22 1999, Budapest
  Seminar on the social, political and demographic situation of the Finno-Ugric peoples
• Seminar in Mari El

4. International contacts:

• participation in the session of the UN Working Group on the Indigenous population (July, Geneva)
• participation in the session of the UN Open Working Group on Completion of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (November, Geneva)

5. The Consultative Committee:

• promotes realisation and controls execution of the decisions of the 2^nd World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Budapest;
• organizes the preparatory work of the 3^rd World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Helsinki;
• participates:

• in the work of the Mass media working group;
• in the activities of MAFUN (Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples);
• in the preparation and organization of the Pan-Finno-Ugric Days (October);
• promotes realisation of aims and objectives of the International Decade of Indigenous Peoples of the World in the Russian Federation and its administrative units;
• in the International Finno-Ugric Art Exhibition for Children, March 1999, Moscow

6. The Consultative Committee promotes the development of direct contacts between Finno-Ugric peoples at various levels and areas.

Confirmed at the meeting of the Consultative Committee October 8, 1998 on the Livonian coast.