Af Mariia Simonsen
01-07 2010 - 17:03
The Inuit Circumpolar Council closed its 11th general assembly on Thursday, July 1, by approving an ambitious 54-point agenda for the coming years.
Known as the Nuuk Declaration after the host city of the four-day assembly, the agenda instructs the ICC leadership to hold a summit for Inuit leaders to work out a common position on mining and oil exploration in the region.
The suggestion was made by the Greenlandic delegation, and comes as Canadian Inuit region of Nunatsiavut prepares to make a final decision on uranium mining by next March.
Newly elected ICC president Aqqaluk Lynge called the declaration “the clearest mandate an ICC board had ever received”.
For the first time ever this year, the ICC general assembly’s final declaration was composed in all four Inuit languages, as well as in English.
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