Arctic_Council_membership Arctic_Council

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1 arctic council membership

1.1 member states
1.2 observer countries
1.3 chairmanship
1.4 permanent participants





arctic council membership
member states

the member states consist of following:



canada
denmark; representing

greenland
faroe islands


finland
iceland
norway
russia
sweden
united states

observer countries

observer states consist of following (2017):



germany, 1998
netherlands, 1998
poland, 1998
united kingdom, 1998
france, 2000
spain, 2006
china, 2013
india, 2013
italy, 2013
japan, 2013
south korea, 2013
singapore, 2013
switzerland, 2017

chairmanship

from 2017 2019, finland serving chair of council. chairmanship of council rotates every 2 years among 8 national members. canada (1996-1998) served first chair of arctic council, followed united states (1998-2000), finland (2000-2002), iceland (2002-2004), russia (2004-2006), norway (2006-2008), denmark , sweden. norway, denmark , sweden have agreed on set of common priorities 3 chairmanships.


permanent participants

six arctic indigenous communities have status of permanent participants on council. these groups represented aleut international association, arctic athabaskan council, gwich in council international, inuit circumpolar council, russian association of indigenous peoples of north, , saami council. assisted arctic council indigenous peoples secretariat.








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