Opening of 18th Session of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (at podium), President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, addresses the opening of the eighteenth substantive session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues themed ""Traditional knowledge: Generation, transmission and protection"". At centre of dais is Anne Nuorgam, Chair of the 18th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and at left is Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).