Minister Sônia Guajajara, from the Secretariat of Indigenous Peoples, guaranteed that all discussions of the "Amazon Dialogues" and the "Amazon Summit" will be incorporated into the final document of the 30th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP-30), in November 2025. The statement took place on Sunday afternoon (6), at the Hangar - Convention Center, in the capital of Pará. The doubt of many participants in the pre-COP events was that the demands of social movements, debated in Belém, would be left out of the final draft of the document that is almost completed.
"What was previously discussed, and here in Brazil we participated in this construction of the Brazil position, is that all the documents that will come out of the plenary sessions, here in the Amazon Dialogues, will also be incorporated into the official document of the Summit of Presidents", said the minister.
When dealing with the challenges for the protection of indigenous territories, Sonia Guajajara listed that they include combating illegal logging, mining, land grabbing and emphasized that not only what we call the environment should be protected, but the territories as a whole.
"We indigenous peoples are 5% of the world's population and protect 82% of the world's living biodiversity. This means that we are the guardians of life and the future. For us, thinking about all this is also thinking not only from the natural resources that need to be protected, but the liberation of territories as a whole, which preserves cultures, biodiversity, which guarantees life for current and future generations ", he highlights.
Regarding the reinforcement of the security of indigenous peoples in the Amazon, the minister emphasized the integrated partnership with other ministries and exemplified the special case of the disintrusion process of the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Land, in the State of Pará.
"We are coming out of a period in which violence was fueled by hatred against indigenous peoples. In seven months, we have a very strong partnership with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Environment and many other partners to combat this violence in indigenous territories. With the Tembé people, in particular, here in the State of Pará, we had a very important initiative that was the disintrusion of the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Land, a territory that had already been homologated 30 years ago and there were still invaders. In two months, we were able to deliver the title of possession of this territory to the Tembé people. This is one of the measures to bring this security and we will continue to move forward ", he explains.
Another topic addressed by journalists was the issue of the Temporal Framework thesis, a legal interpretation that argues that only indigenous peoples who were under their possession on October 5, 1988, the date of the promulgation of the Federal Constitution, would be entitled to the demarcation of the lands, the minister reaffirmed the position contrary to the thesis and informed that she continues to follow the processing of Bill 2903/2023.
"We have a position totally contrary to the Temporary Framework thesis, which will only increase conflicts. So we are following the processing of PL 2903 in the Federal Senate, as well as following up with the Federal Supreme Court, which may resume this judgment until September ", he reveals.
At the end of the interview, Sonia Guajajara reaffirmed the government's commitment to democracy, environmental sustainability and the protection of the Amazon. "It is seven months of a new government that resumes the discussion of Democracy, sustainability, and environmental protection. We will continue to rely on the partnership between the ministries to always work with a view to respecting the participation, free, prior and informed consultation of the peoples directly or indirectly affected and, thus, seek strategies to protect our Amazon".
(Written by Fabyo Cruz)
