Examples of using CONAI in English and their translations into Spanish
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Colloquial
Ladies and gentlemen members of Conai.
The contribution Conai is included if you had to.
The PRI and the PAN criticized the"partiality" of CONAI.
And once president of CONAI, Don Samuel also suffered, in February 1995, a threat of imprisonment.
The Committee welcomes the establishment of the National Commission on Indigenous Affairs CONAI.
The special attorney cooperated closely with CONAI, and attempts were being made to improve the service provided.
A brief meeting was held with Bishop Samuel Ruiz who headed the Comisión Nacional de Intermediación CONAI.
The Committee notes with concern that CONAI does not fully represent the interests of all indigenous populations.
The studies and proceedings for expropriation andcompensation shall be carried out by IDA in coordination with CONAI.
With reference to education, CONAI had calculated that there were 5,123 pupils attending 119 schools in 1997.
Mr. KJAERUM asked whether the Autonomous Development of Indigenous Peoples Bill contained any provisions to alter the functions or status of CONAI.
According to CONAI data, around 50 per cent of land declared by law to belong to reservations was not in indigenous hands.
The Office of the Ombudsman andthe National Commission on Indigenous Affairs(CONAI) had undertaken to promote greater equality of rights for that group.
Finding suitably qualified court interpreters with sufficient knowledge of indigenous languages had proved a challenge to the authorities, butguidelines had been drawn up, in conjunction with CONAI.
The Ministry of Culture for its part had accused CONAI of being unrepresentative, acting without a clear strategy and wasting the funds at its disposal.
His Government had decided to seek a political solution to the conflict in the State of Chiapas, through negotiation and dialogue andhad agreed to the mediation of CONAI, as endorsed by the Ejército Zapatisto de la Liberación Nacional EZLN.
The National Commission on Indigenous Affairs(CONAI) had developed a plan for the development of indigenous peoples, which had not yet been fully implemented.
Mr. GUILLERMET FERNÁNDEZ(Costa Rica) said that, if the Legislative Assembly approved the draft legislation on the autonomous development of indigenous peoples,the national system of institutions relating to indigenous affairs would be overhauled and the status of CONAI, in particular, would change.
Treasury had been empty for three years, butwhile it awaited renewed funding, CONAI was engaged mainly in assessing the value of the land to be redistributed to the indigenous communities.
This award is organised under the auspices of the European Commission and the IMELS and it is promoted by Legambiente, the Region of Lombardy, and the Milan Polytechnic University in collaboration with the Regional Environmental Protection Agency(ARPA)of Lombardy, CONAI, the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation, the Green Management Institute and the Kyoto Club.
According to figures published by CONAI in 1990, the proportion of indigenous landowners ranged from 80 to 100 per cent in eight zones situated in the indigenous reservations of the Atlántica region.
On the basis of the general obligations laid down in the international Convention,the Court considered that the reduction of the budget of the CONAI unduly infringed the institution's role of developing initiatives for the benefit of indigenous populations.
The National Commission on Indigenous Affairs(CONAI), established in 1973, had originally included representatives of various government institutions, but was now a State body made up exclusively of representatives of indigenous peoples.
There were plans to launch a major project for the autonomous development of the indigenous population, which would include a special fund to finance expropriations. CONAI had in 1995 had a budget of over 150 million colones(1 million United States dollars) for the buy-back of land situated in indigenous reservations.
COCOPA's efforts, and those of CONAI, were much appreciated by the Government, which had restated its determination to find a solution through dialogue and negotiation and demonstrated its desire for reconciliation and renewed confidence in its dealings with ZNLA, inter alia by associating two leading members of ZNLA with the peace process.
The Committee notes the reinstatement of the National Commission on Indigenous Affairs(CONAI), with a new executive board comprising seven members who are representatives of the indigenous communities.
Those workshops made it possible to confirm the priority needs of the indigenous communities themselves, to pinpoint the areas of State action or inaction in the indigenous territories, to provide the development associations in each territory with an instrument that could serve as a basis for objective work,to inform the members of each community of institutional actions taken by CONAI and the development associations, thus providing an objective basis for control, and to enable CONAI to redefine its institutional role.
The suspension of the National Mediation Commission(CONAI) in June 1998 was further evidence that the Mexican Government was undermining the necessary conditions for dialogue and negotiation.
In addition, a Commission on Indigenous Electoral Affairs has been established with the participation of TSE and CONAI officials to ensure that members of indigenous communities exercise their electoral and civil rights in conditions of equality.
Also, in 1997, the National Indigenous Affairs Commission(CONAI) had submitted a case to the Constitutional Court, accusing the executive branch of wanting to stifle it and do away with it.