By Rocío Anabel
Magnani Members of some indigenous peoples in Glew met and agreed on the creation of a purporting to represent a sector of the communities in different provinces. Criticized government policy and rejected the "representation outsourced" the INAI.
Lomas de Zamora, February 24 (AUNO) .- After celebrating in Almirante Brown's first "Summit on indigenous political leaders, members communities from the country denounced the "handling" of the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI) on their claims and announced the creation of a National Indigenous Council (NIC), an organization that will conform to the federal level by representatives of communities and will work independently of government agencies.
"We're not completely disengaging the state, but also accept outsourced representation," he told the owner AUNO Indian Political Bureau of the province of Buenos Aires, Andrea Quevedo, who was one of the promoters and signatories of the initiative the meeting held last Thursday in the Fifth Italian in town of Glew.
The main objectives outlined in the charter of the CNI, are to ensure "direct representation of indigenous peoples" in Argentina and form "policy proposals in partnership with the State."
"The INC is not be a party, is a decision of the people taking the direction of the dialogue with the National Government," he told the agency one of the organizers who had the summit Luis Baez, a member of Mocoví Village Santa Fe and candidate for deputy provincial of that province for Civic and Social Progressive Front, the governor Hermes Binner.
Another function that has the National Indigenous Council is, according to Baez, "to ensure the sovereignty of peoples over earmarks international entities for some communities, as Quevedo added, are" handled administratively by the national government. "
"The INAI manages funds that should be delivered directly to the people because then the budget does not reach the communities," denounced the leader of Buenos Aires.
Today, the Indigenous Participation Council (ICC), which depends on the INAI is the forum for consultation and indigenous participation in shaping public policy.
For Baez, who is also CEO of ICC in Santa Fe, "The institute (by INAI) never represented the indigenous peoples, fingering our elections, the Government did not hear our demands."
addition, the leader said to be getting the INAI obstacles to the Land Survey Act of indigenous peoples, for which the Legislature had already approved a budget of "35 million dollars."
The CNI charter was endorsed by the Bureau of Indian National Policy (a space where communities come together no more critical), tables of Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Chaco, Jujuy, Salta and Formosa, the Union of Indigenous Peoples and the Council Native of Buenos Aires.
conjunction with the formation of this entity, at the meeting of February 17 participants stated the "Independence of the Indigenous Peoples Policy," which does not mean, as said Quevedo, who attempt to "reclaim the power of the state" but be recognized as "pre-existing people," as does the national Constitution and international law.
"We can not turn a blind eye when we are kids starving in Salta, when our people were left without land, when they kill a fellow, when repressing our brothers, as happened in Formosa with the Qom people," said Báez.
Therefore, he added: "We have a responsibility to seek an alternative to the INAI, because we exhaust all instances with the agency. The nuclear CNI all communities to discuss indigenous issues and policies." RAM-AAFD
AUNO-24-2-11
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