At an event at the UK Embassy in Brasilia on Monday (11), the National Trust for Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI) made the body available to the British government to advance the establishment of partnerships that affirm people's rights. Indigenous peoples in Brazil.
“One of our main agendas in indigenous policy is to advance the process of land regularization and environmental management of indigenous lands. This partnership will help us in these processes”, reaffirmed Lucia Alberta Andrade, Director of Promotion for Sustainable Development, who was at the Embassy with Ana Paula Sabino, Parliamentary Affairs Adviser of the Funai Presidency.
Lucia Alberta and Ana Sabino briefed the British delegation on Fanai's role and its limitations, as well as the situation in the legislative sector and other partnerships with various institutions and international organizations in Brazil.
United Kingdom Secretary General for Development Mr. Nick Dyer was keen to hear from Fanai about the body's priorities for strengthening territorial protection of indigenous peoples. “We are ready to contribute. We want to take this partnership forward and support indigenous peoples in what is important to them,” he said.
British Ambassador Stephanie Al-Khaq follows the challenges facing indigenous peoples in Brazil and said the British government has good plans and programs to strengthen indigenous policy. “What more can we do to protect the people who protect their land and the people who live on it? “We are trying to contribute because it is a humanitarian issue,” he asserted.
Funai and the United Kingdom Embassy will continue to have bilateral agendas to advance priority partnerships in the coming years.
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