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Close ✕Arctic Council
Established by the Ottawa Declaration of 19 September 1996 as a high-level intergovernmental forum of the eight Arctic states - Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and…
69.6, 19.0 · approximate · founded 1996-09-19; participation disrupted from March 2022
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- assesses Arctic Ocean — The Council produces assessments and coordinates working groups but has no regulatory power and its founding declaration excludes military security - it examines the Arctic, it does not govern it.
- is member of of Inuit Circumpolar Council — It holds Permanent Participant status, a category created by the Ottawa Declaration that seats indigenous peoples' organisations alongside states with full consultation rights.
- is member of of Sami — The Sami are represented at the Council by the Saami Council, one of the six Permanent Participants - the Arctic has several indigenous peoples with different economies and different legal positions, not one.
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