DEMARCATION OF INDIGENOUS LANDS IN BRAZIL

leave out from 'house' to end and add 'notes the recent legal changes to Brazil allowing interested parties to challenge specific demarcations, and that the changes pr-empt the danger of the Constitutional Court nullyfying previous demarcations on technical legal grounds; observes that of the 534 challenges all but two have been rejected, and those two are being further reviewed, welcomes demarcation of a further 237,000 hectares as indigenous lands in 1995, and the new law signed by President Cardoso confirming new reserves covering more than 861,000 hectares; and acknowledges the Brazilian Governments policy of transparency in these matters, demonstrated by the recent visit of the Minister of Justice to London to explain the issue.'.