Asia-Pacific initiative to empower Indigenous groups worthy of attention here

The recent promulgation of an Indigenous Peoples Economic and Trade Cooperation Arrangement (IPETCA), which New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nanaia Mahuta says is intended as part of a journey “towards achieving greater economic empowerment for Indigenous Peoples” in the Asia-Pacific region is more than worthy of the attention here in Guyana where issues relating to the scarcity of meaningful official interventions, over the more than half a century of political independence to improve the quality of life in Indigenous communities has increasingly become the subject of public and political commentary.

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