Assembly Hall

The meeting of the Working Group on the Indigenous Populations (WGIP) is normally held in Room XVIII. This year however; the meeting of WGIP was held in Assembly Hall.

During his stay in Geneva; Mr. Sengo spoke with various human rights specialists and asked for their advice how to defend the fundamental human rights of the Indigenous Aramean (Syrian) people worldwide. Besides the plenary meeting; he also attended several parallel meetings of interest. Among these events; he attended on Thursday 22-7-2004 a meeting on “Media & the Information Society" related to indigenous knowledge and culture. Among the invited guest speakers were a Professor from Canada and an activist of the Mahowk Nation  from north America.

After the meeting; Mr. Sengo had a personal conversation with professor Ted Talys and asked his advice on how to deal with the plenty of biased information regarding our people spread by some fanatical persons whose goal is to falsify the history and culture of the indigenous Aramean people worldwide.

 Mr. Sengo also spoke with representative of the Mahowk Nation and asked his advice how to present effectively our people to the world. He is involved with united nations for many years and is an experienced man on the field of human rights and “how to present your nation to the world”.

 Professor Virginius XaXa from India is an experienced sociologist at the University of Dehli. His specialty is political sociology with a special interest for minorities and indigenous issues.

Mr. Sengo shared the same hotel as Professor XaXa and therefore he had the honor to speak everyday with professor XaXa on wide range of minorities and indigenous issues. He also asked professor XaXa for his advice on several topics concerning the Aramean (Syrian) people.

Statement

 Mr. Sengo talked with many specialists to exchange ideas and strategies on how effectively to defend the rights of the Indigenous Aramean people. During his participation to this meeting; he also prepared a statement under agenda item 4 (b) to ask for the attention of the world community to the difficult situation of the Indigenous Aramean people in the Middle-East. The statement concerning the Aramean people was set under number 81; see here below. 

After the statement was read by Mr. Sengo; many delegates came to him asking for a copy of the statement. Because of overwhelming interest; around 120 copies of the expanded version of the statement was put on the table at the  disposal of the delegates. These copies were put on the table on Wednesday 21-7-2004 and on Thursday 22-7-2004 at the end of the day all the 120 copies were picked up by the delegates.