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๐ฉTodays session mcq series.
๐ถThe Arctic Council is the leading intergovernmental forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States, Arctic indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common Arctic issues.
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✅Formation - The formation of Arctic Council can be traced in the establishment of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS) in 1991 as a framework for intergovernmental cooperation on environmental protection initiatives among the Arctic States including Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the United States.
✅Objective - The Arctic Council works as a consensus-based body to deal with issues such as the change in biodiversity, melting sea ice, plastic pollution and black carbon.
๐ถMember countries and Org.
✅The Council has members, ad hoc observer countries and "permanent participants"
Members of the Arctic Council: ๐นOttawa Declaration declares ๐นCanada, the Kingdom of Denmark, ๐นFinland, ๐นIceland, ๐นNorway,๐น the Russian Federation, ๐นSweden and๐น the United States of America as a member of the Arctic Council.
⏭️Denmarks represents Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
๐ฉPermanent participants:
✅Aleut International Association (AIA),
✅Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC)
✅Gwich'in Council ✅International (GCI)
✅Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)
✅Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPN)
✅Saami Council
๐ฑStatus of india - observer 2013(no voting rights)
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