<P> It was established in 1989, with the preamble stating: </P> <P> Noting the international standards contained in the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention and Recommendation, 1957, and </P> <P> Recalling the terms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the many international instruments on the prevention of discrimination, and </P> <P> Considering that the developments which have taken place in international law since 1957, as well as developments in the situation of indigenous and tribal peoples in all regions of the world, have made it appropriate to adopt new international standards on the subject with a view to removing the assimilationist orientation of the earlier standards, and </P>

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