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THE PRUSAI PEOPLE DECLARATION





The Prusai People a Nation in dispersion endorsement of the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

which was adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on 13 September 2007.
We, The Indigenous Prusai People, welcome and support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
We acknowledge that the General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by the State in accordance with the Charter

We the Indigenous Prusai Nation acknowledge
and support the United Nations for;


We the Indigenous Prusai Nation acknowledge, support, and thank the United Nations for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.



The English Atlas, Volume I. Oxford MDCLXXX

Map of the XVII century shows still used the ancient names "Aestiae"
for the Prusai land.
Preamble;
To All and Singular to whom these presents shall come,
We the Indigenous Prusai Nation the Autochthonous noble Peoples of the South Baltic acknowledge and support the United Nation that they solemnly proclaim the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a standard of achievement to be pursued in a spirit of partnership and mutual respect. Therefore, in this same spirit and pursuit we adhered to this proclamation and so have adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a template to claim and declare our Indigenous Sovereignty and Nationhood and all the rights and privileges afforded to nations within the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to the world


Prusai People Counties.

We declare that no matter our geography, tribe, faith or political affiliation we are united as one People through the one God, the Almighty, God the creator off all things, He confirms our Brotherhood and Nationhood, with his WILL and blessings we exist.
We are the Indigenous Prusai People, Pomezans, Pogezans, Sasins, Galinds, Warms, Barths, Natangs, Sambians, Nadrovians, Skalvas, Sudovians have united as a People to create a unified and free indigenous nation of Prusai People under God named “the Autochthonous Prusai Nation” and by the short name of “Prusai”. The following is true that “Prusai land” means the indigenous nation of Prusai Peoples and principalities “Prusai land” means the unified nation of the indigenous Prusai nations, peoples, tribes, principalities and provinces of Prusai land in the geographical region of the South Baltic Sea. “Prusai land” means an indigenous autochthonous creation of God flesh and blood Prusai man woman child being from historical and geographical Terra Prusai land.
We, the Indigenous Prusai People confirm that we are one of the most ancient indigenous Peoples in the world and our contribution into the development of humanity is unique, if only to mention such names as Nicolaus Copernicus or Maria Sklodowska-Curie. The history of our People can be traced from the birth of civilization in the North Eastern Europe from before Anno Domino, the material evidence of which can be found all over this territory, have gained world heritage recognition. Our People our ethnic and traditional customs, our rituals, culture, and language of the Prusai ethnos emerged throughout this territory over the past millennia before legal history and beyond legal memory. Terra Prusai – the Autochthonous and historical homeland territory of the Indigenous Prusai People is located between from the west, lower Vistula river to the east, river Niemen, north of it the Baltic Sea and south river Drweca. The present Prusai People land is the so called Warmia and Mazury in Poland, Kaliningrad Region given to Soviet Union for administration, in Lithuania Klaipeda area and Belarus Grodno region. It embraces the eleven Prusai provinces.
The most ancient ethno-genetic sources of the Prusai People ethnos are related to the population of the Goths, Sarmatians, Ugro-Finns, archaeological culture dating from III century B.C. to the XIII century Anno Domino. Throughout the millenniums – from the XIX century B.C. to the XIII century A.D. – the Indigenous Ancient Prusai People population of the South Baltic Sea was unified by the boundary of a single authonomous country. Ethnonym Gothiscandia, Aestia, Galindia, Sudovia is another title for the Prusai ethnos at the beginning of our times. Known to the ancient historians of the I century A.D. Tacitus, Ptolemaeus and to the Goth Cassiodorus the VI century A.D. It was an umbrella term for all the Prusai People sub-ethnic divisions. Simultaneously the usage of the ethnonym Prusai People occured after the X century, could originate from the sanskrit word Purusah meaning the people.
Ancient Prusai very well known to the Ancient World of Islam, Ancient Greece and Roman Empire as a traders specially of a yellow amber. Ancient Greeks calling it by the word of the electron from which derived present description of electricity.
Their yellow amber routes were directed to the Ancient Southern Europe and to the Middle East direction by the route to the Black Sea.
The Prusai People very active in trading inside the basin of the Baltic Sea, for this activity they possessed a sailing fleet and two ports Truso and Wiskiauten, that were opened to the free trade of the other Baltic Sea nations.
In the IX century they established a trade centre with the ancient Russian city of Novogorod where their presence documented by naming of the street “ Prusai street”. The recent archeological finding of the trident near Wiskiaten, the VII - VIII century stone engraving by far may suggest, that Prusai People actively participated in creation the Russian State of Kiev.
From the XI century to the beginning of XII century, otherwise for 200 years, fourteen of the Polish monarchs attempted to subjugate Prusai People by continous raids to conquer them.
Bravely defending their land, their freedom and their families they could not expect, that soon will have to battle against the whole of Europe under the German leadership. In 1234 Prusai People under command of the Prince of Resia in force of 4000 stood up against 20 000 armed German knights and Polish Princes with their armies. In a very long, bloody battle, all the warriors of the Prusai People from the Resia land perished. That was the beginning of the conquest lasting 53 years in most cruel fighting that the Europe had seen, ending with genocide of the Prusai People, that was conducted under strict command of the German Teutonic Order of Knights with black cross. This black cross still remains with the German armed forces and occasianally their top politician proudly dress their black cross overall.
To the German assistance in conquest rushed the Europe’s Kings, Princes, knights seeking glory in killing defensless Prusai People, as well as all the criminals in knighthood profession.
Approximately 200 000 population of Prusai land, had its ethnic limits against the whole Europe and after more than half a century of fighting, could not resist the might of Europe. The Prusai People though defeated never had surrendered.
Our heroes, the greatest of them all Herkus Monte others Glappo, Auctume, Linka, Divan -Klekine, Glande are in the Europe’s history without a precedence the greatest freedom fighters. They fought for the Prusai People survival, and till the present day we have not a chance to celebrate their glory and Nation’s heroism. Now it is 800 years since we had had lost our land, identity, culture, heritage, everything. The Europe oficially declare us the dead Nation and continously is trading with our land.
German Teutonic Order of Knights during the genocide of Prusai People demolished us completely, our social structures, leaving the remaining population of about 40% in conditions below humanity standards, without ethnic leadership. On the ruins of Prusai land, the Germans for centuries built their barbaric power under the stolen name of our Prusai People’s name Prussia. The two World Wars and before for centuries dozen of other wars, the Germans conducted their policy of militarizm, continously under the stolen name of our Nation.
In the XIII and XIV century many Prusai People for saving their lives, above 10 % of their population sought asylum in Poland and neighbouring lands.
Madam Prof. Jadwiga Chwalibinska in her work has established, the centuries dispersion of the Prusai People within the present Polish borders. The Prusai People with their principles of freedom and unity, gathered themselves under the Coat of Arms Prus I, II, III and it was not at all for showing their nobility but to maitain a free class of people. Poland then already a feudal monarchy, where not everybody could call himself a freeman, would not easily accept the Prusai People as a free people. The slavery such a social structure was unknown between the Prusai People, therefore Prusai People’s families not necessary with blood ties gathered themselves under the Coat of Arms Prus. This, in the Polish heralddry is the largest in number, numbering the Prusai families names, now becoming a source of the Prusai People identity. Trace over 700 families of Prusai names, summing up to now to at least 500 000 people. The Prusai People polpulation in Poland is estimated at of several milions.

Frederick Chopin composed his famous Mazurkas, as a young genious had spend his summer holidays in within a small population of Prusai People in the north Masovia former Prusai land. During their harvest celebrations he was enchanted with a uniqe uncommon folklor. While in Paris, Frederick Chopin dedicated to those immemorable moments with Prusai People composing world famous Mazurkas.


Poland’s map indicating Prusai People dispersion in XIV century


North eastern part of Poland’s Masovia has a district known Kurpie, it is just outside of the former Prusai land, its population originates from the Prusai runaways using their name Curpe originating from the Prusai language, for centuries mantained their foreign culture with unusually charming folklor dancing, singing. Its inhabitantants, the Prusai, having nothing in common with neighbours, kept their personal freedom all the way through the centuries not being under or accepting Poland’s feudal laws. Their houses construction and art decorations differ from others. All these help in the reconstruction of our Nation culture and heritage.




The Prusai present private efforts, being without any financial help or assistance, we edited with private funds in the Polish language the first concise Prusai Nation history “ Where are you, Prusai? “ by author L. Niekrasz, as well erecting monuments in memory of Prusai heroism.
Archeological artefacts found on the territory of Prusai land being dispersed all over the Europe and stored without due care, frequently in the cellars becoming stolen and disintegrated, as it was with damaged documents from Kaliningrad. Many disappeared without knowledge of their whereabouts. The last Prusai People living on the native Prusai land, location the present Kaliningrad region, a crime was commited on them in the year 1948 by the Soviet Union administrators. The Germans in front of the coming Red Army departed in a panic from the Prusai land. The Prusai natives stayed on, on their land, believing that a final freedom from the Germans has arrived to them.
Instead of freedom, murder, rape, and new terror by Soviet Union was superimposed on them and those who survived from all these attrocities were deported to Siberia, Kazahstan and the rest to East Germany. Treated them in a similar way as the German war criminals, and nobody wanted to listen them. All this happened in 1946 and 1948. Who to day knows, that in June 1934 it was them who uprised, against Hitler in then the Konigsberg. The last Prusai People on the native land were brutally removed at about 200 000 of them, thus making an empty space for the Soviets. That was the last genocide committed on the Prusai People.
To day’s Germany refuses to recognize them as an ethnic minority, one could only guess, they afraid to admit the genocide in the XIII century that continued for 700 years of their presence on the Prusai land.
The authoress of the book "Between East and West", published in Gr. Britain in 1995, a prominent Anne Applebaum writes in her introduction on page XII: "In the 13th century the Teutonic Knights completed the regions first holocaust, destroying the indigenous people of Prussia (Prusai) and replacing them with Germans".
To put a stop the centuries continued genocide and revers the Prusai People inhumane fate, arises the necessity that the World put a stop to all of these attrocities and help to revitalize our Nation. The present no man’s Kaliningrad Region land, is the Prusai People land and its fate and future ought to be in consideration with us the Prusai People. The present administration of this land is overdue.
Our ownership of Terra Prusai land is from the time immemorial. We the traditional owners, the first people of the Prusai land have never voluntarily entered into agreements with other Peoples or People for the surrender or sale, voluntary or not of our Prusai lands. Our land is part of the Prusai essence. For as long as at least one Prusai populates this Planet, this land “Prusai land” will belong to the Indigenous Prusai People. All that beautifully stated in the UN Charter and we the Prusai People will never confront its Articles but humanly and with distinction obey it.

Man’s Ancient customs state, that flesh and blood man was divided by God to nations and tongues. The “Prusai Nation” a creation of God, Crowned by the hand of God and granted the custodianship over Prusai land by Him. Proof of this dignity is the acknowledgment by all the Nations of God, that we are the Autochthonous Nation of the South Baltic Sea. “We the Prusai” by divine right are Gods legal guardians of Terra the Prusai land and have been since time immemorial. Autochthony, our Holy mandate, the divine testament of our inheritance, the confirmation of our rule of this “Gods land Prusai”. By His will the Prusai Nation was created the Sovereign Autochthonous Peoples of Terra the Prusai land with unlimited unalienable and unassailable rights and freedoms as a Peoples and a Nation. We have suffered cruel turns of fate; Prusai had not known peace for centuries.
We have been pushed out by force from our own land, and over the time, the records of our existence are being gradually eliminated and destroyed. Our graves are robbed and destroyed by bulldozers, concreted over and flooded with water. Our Relics, sacred and holy sites, our bones and artefacts looted, stolen and illegally hidden in collections abroad and in foreign museums. Our People are facing extinction. Our blood is slowly thinning, assimilating with the international community. We are the People who are losing our identity, names, voice, and Nationhood.
In the light of this tragedy we have gathered together from around the world in order to remind and confirm to the international community of Nations and the People of the world of our existence, to demand and claim our Nationhood and sovereignty as an indigenous Peoples seeking peace, repatriation, reconciliation, treaty, and recompense. We have taken our future in our hands placed our feet firm on the path to self-determination as one Autochthonous Indigenous Prusai Nation.
We ask that the UN, EU, Russia and the international community of Nations to uphold and defend the rights that are entitled to us under the UN charter of Human rights and the Declaration of the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples, with all other International laws, instruments, covenants, mandates, declarations and treaties respecting the sovereignty and rights of Indigenous Peoples and nations, People and human Rights.
With all this in mind must conclude, that the Prusai nation did not disappeared from the history of Europe, or from the surface, and therefore now declare: Prusai People stopped hiding their existence, still and will be coming to the rightful place in Europe.

We hereby announce the rebirth of the descendants and heirs of the thirteenth-century North Atlantis - Baltic nation of The Prusai People.



Recent archeological excavation of the II-III century AD. Weklice


Portraits of Rome Emperors
Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus


Vase terrasigillata-clay

Bracelets - gold

Bowl-Bronze

Bowl scyphos

Beads-gold

Clip - gold

DECLARATION

We the Indigenous Prusai People;

Article 1

... have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law.

Article 2

... are free and equal to all other Peoples and individuals and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of our rights, in particular that based on our indigenous origin or identity.

Articles 3

... have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right we freely determine our political status and freely pursue our economic, social, and cultural development.

Article 4

... in exercising our right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to our internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing our autonomous functions.

Article 5

... have the right to maintain and strengthen our distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining our right to participate fully, if we so choose, in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the State.

Article 6

... Prusai individuals have the right to a nationality and Nationhood.

Article 7

... 1. Indigenous Prusai and individuals have the rights to life, physical and mental integrity, liberty and security of person.

2. Indigenous Prusai Peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace, and security as distinct Peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group to another group.

Article 8

... 1. have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of our culture.
2. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall provide us effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress for:
(a) (a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving us of our integrity as distinct Peoples, or of our cultural values or ethnic identities;
(b) (b) Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing us of our lands, territories or resources; (c) (c ) Any form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of our rights;
(d) (d) Any form of forced assimilation or integration;
(e) (e) Any form of propaganda designed to promote or incite racial or ethnic discrimination directed against us.

Article 9

... and individuals have the right to belong to an indigenous community or nation, in accordance with the traditions and customs of the Indigenous Prusai People. No discrimination of any kind may arise from the exercise of such a right.

Article 10

... shall not be forcibly removed from our lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior, and informed consent of the Indigenous Prusai People and after agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.

Article 11

... 1. have the right to practice and revitalize our cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect, and develop the past, present, and future manifestations of our cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.

2. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples That the State shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples, with respect to our cultural, intellectual, religious, and spiritual property taken without our free, prior, and informed consent, or in violation of our laws, traditions, and customs.

Article 12

... 1. have the right to manifest, practice, develop, and teach our spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to our religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of our ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of our human remains.

2. We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall seek to enable the access and/or repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains in our possession through fair, transparent, and effective mechanisms developed in conjunction with Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land.

Article 13

... 1. have the right to revitalize, use, develop, and transmit to future generations our histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain our own names for communities, places, and persons.

2. We the Prusai People of Prusai land demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples that the State shall take effective measures to ensure that this right is protected and also to ensure that the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land can understand and be understood in political, legal, and administrative proceedings, where necessary through the provision of interpretation or by other appropriate means.

Article 14

.... 1. have the right to establish and control our educational systems and institutions providing education in our own languages, in a manner appropriate to our cultural methods of teaching and learning.

2. We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land and individuals, particularly children, have the right to all levels and forms of education of the State without discrimination.

3. We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall, in conjunction with our indigenous Prusai People, take effective measures, in order for indigenous Prusai and individuals, particularly children, including those living outside our communities, to have access, when possible, to an education in our own culture and provided in our own language.

Article 15

... 1. have the right to the dignity and diversity of our culture, traditions, history, and aspirations which shall be appropriately reflected in education and public information.

2. We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall take effective measures, in consultation and cooperation with the Indigenous Prusai land People, to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination and to promote tolerance, understanding, and good relations among Indigenous Prusai People and all other segments of society.

Article 16

... 1. have the right to establish our own media in our own languages and to have access to all forms of non-indigenous media without discrimination.

2. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall take effective measures to ensure that State-owned media duly reflect indigenous Prusai cultural diversity. That the State, without prejudice to ensuring full freedom of expression, should encourage privately owned media to adequately reflect Indigenous Prusai cultural diversity.

Article 17

... 1. and individuals have the right to enjoy fully all rights established under applicable international and domestic labour law.

2.demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall in consultation and cooperation with Indigenous Prusai Peoples and representatives take specific measures to protect Indigenous Prusai children from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral, or social development, taking into account our special vulnerability and the importance of education for our empowerment.

3.We, the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land and individuals have the right not to be subjected to any discriminatory conditions of labour and, inter alia, employment or salary.

Article 18

... demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect our rights, through representatives chosen by ourselves in accordance with our own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop our own indigenous Prusai decision- making institutions.

Article 19

... demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the Indigenous Prusai People through our own representative institutions in order to obtain our free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them the Indigenous Prusai People.

Article 20

... 1. have the right to maintain and develop our political, economic, and social systems or institutions, to be secure in the enjoyment of our own means of subsistence and development, and to engage freely in all our traditional and other economic activities.

2. Indigenous Prusai People deprived of their means of subsistence and developments are entitled to just and fair redress.

Article 21

... 1. have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of our economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security.

2. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall take effective measures and, where appropriate, special measures to ensure continuing improvement of our economic and social conditions. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of Indigenous Prusai elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities.

Article 22

... 1. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of Indigenous Prusai elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities in the implementation of this Declaration.

2. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall take measures, in conjunction with indigenous Prusai People, to ensure that indigenous Prusai women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination.

Articles 23

... Indigenous Prusai People have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising our right to development. In particular, Indigenous Peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and determining health, housing, and other economic and social programs affecting them and, as far as possible, to administer such programs through our own institutions.

Article 24

... 1. have the right to our traditional medicines and to maintain our health practices, including the conservation of our vital medicinal plants, animals, and minerals. We, the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusland and individuals also have the right to access, without any discrimination, to all social and health services.

2. and individuals have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall take the necessary steps with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right.

Article 25

... have the right to maintain and strengthen our distinctive spiritual relationship with our traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold our responsibilities to future generations in this regard.

Article 26

... 1. have the right to the lands, territories, and resources which we have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.

2.We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land have the right to own, use, develop, and control the lands, territories and resources that we possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which we have otherwise acquired.

3. We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous Prusai People.

Article 27

... demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall establish and implement, in conjunction with indigenous Prusai Peoples, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, giving due recognition to Indigenous Prusai People’ laws, traditions, customs, and land tenure systems, to recognize and adjudicate the rights of indigenous Prusai People pertaining to our lands, territories, and resources, including those which were traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used. Indigenous Prusai People shall have the right to participate in this process.

Article 28

... 1. have the right to redress, by means that can include restitution or, when this is not possible, just, fair, and equitable compensation, for the lands, territories and resources which we have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used, and which have been confiscated, taken, occupied, used or damaged without our free, prior, and informed consent.

2. Unless otherwise freely agreed upon by the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai People, compensation shall take the form of lands, territories, and resources equal in quality, size, and legal status or of monetary compensation or other appropriate redress.

Article 29

... 1. Indigenous Prusai Peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of our lands or territories and resources. We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall establish and implement assistance programs for indigenous Prusai People for such conservation and protection, without discrimination.

2.demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall take effective measures to ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall take place in the lands or territories of Indigenous Prusai People without our free, prior, and informed consent.

3. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall also take effective measures to ensure, as needed, that programs for monitoring, maintaining, and restoring the health of Indigenous Prusai People, as developed and implemented by the Peoples affected by such materials, are duly implemented.

Article 30

... 1. Military activities shall not take place in the lands or territories of Indigenous Prusai People, unless justified by a relevant public interest or otherwise freely agreed with or requested by the Indigenous Peoples concerned.

2. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall undertake effective consultations with the indigenous Prusai People, through appropriate procedures and in particular through our representative institutions, prior to using our lands or territories for military activities.

Article 31

... 1. have the right to maintain, control, protect, and develop our cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of our sciences, technologies, and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. We also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop our intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions.

2. In conjunction with Indigenous Prusai People, the State shall take effective measures to recognize and protect the exercise of these rights.

Articles 32

... 1 We, the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai land have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of our lands or territories and other resources. 2.demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous Prusai People through our own representative institutions in order to obtain our free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting our lands or territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization, or exploitation of mineral, water, or other resources.

3. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State shall provide effective mechanisms for just and fair redress for any such activities, and appropriate measures shall be taken to mitigate adverse environmental, economic, social, cultural, or spiritual impact.

Article 33

... 1. have the right to determine our own identity or membership in accordance with our customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of indigenous Prusai individuals to obtain citizenship of the State in which we live.

2. We the Indigenous Prusai People of Prusai Peoples have the right to determine the structures and to select the membership of our institutions in accordance with our own procedures.

Articles 34

... have the right to promote, develop and maintain our institutional structures and our distinctive customs, spirituality, traditions, procedures, practices and, in the cases where we exist, juridical systems or customs, in accordance with international human rights standards.

Articles 35

... have the right to determine the responsibilities of individuals to our communities.

Article 36

... 1. in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations, and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes, with our own members as well as other Peoples across borders.

2. demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State, in consultation and cooperation with indigenous Prusai Peoples, shall take effective measures to facilitate the exercise and ensure the implementation of this right.

Article 37

... 1. have the right to the recognition, observance and enforcement of treaties, agreements, and other constructive arrangements concluded with the State or our successors and to have the State Honor and respect such treaties, agreements, and other constructive arrangements.

2. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as diminishing or eliminating the rights of Indigenous Prusai People contained in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements.

Article 38

... demand that under United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the State in consultation and cooperation with indigenous Peoples, shall take the appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to achieve the ends of this Declaration.

Article 39

... have the right to have access to financial and technical assistance from the State and through international cooperation, for the enjoyment of the rights contained in this Declaration.

Article 40

... have the right to access to and prompt decision through just and fair procedures for the resolution of conflicts and disputes with that the State or other parties, as well as to effective remedies for all infringements of our individual and collective rights. Such a decision shall give due consideration to the customs, traditions, rules, and legal systems of the indigenous Prusai Peoples and international human rights.

Article 41

... acknowledge and thank with great humbleness the organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations that they shall contribute to the full realization of the provisions of this Declaration through the mobilization, inter alia, of financial cooperation and technical assistance. Ways and means of ensuring participation of Indigenous Peoples including Indigenous Prusai on issues affecting them shall be established.

Article 42

... acknowledge respectfully that The United Nations, its bodies, including the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and specialized agencies, including at the country level, and the State shall promote respect for and full application of the provisions of this Declaration and follow up the effectiveness of this Declaration.

Article 43

... The rights recognized herein constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity, and well-being of the indigenous Prusai People of the world.

Article 44

... All the rights and freedoms recognized herein are equally guaranteed to male and female Indigenous Prusai People and individuals.

Article 45

... Nothing in this Declaration may be construed as diminishing or extinguishing the rights Indigenous Prusai People have now or may acquire in the future.

Article 46

... 1. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, People, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act contrary to the Charter of the United Nations or construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States.

2. In the exercise of the rights enunciated in the present Declaration, human rights and fundamental freedoms of all shall be respected. The exercise of the rights set forth in this Declaration shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law and in accordance with international human rights obligations. Any such limitations shall be non-discriminatory and strictly necessary solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for meeting the just and most compelling requirements of a democratic society.

3. The provisions set forth in this Declaration shall be interpreted in accordance with the principles of justice, democracy, and respect for human rights, equality, non- discrimination, good governance, and good faith.
S. Klec Pilewski
December 2012


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