Documentation

Declarations

1. Declaration on Establishment of The Arctic Council
2. The Salekhard Declaration
3. The Inari Declaration
4. The Rovaniemi Declaration
5. The Reykjavik Declaration
6. The Barrow Declaration - English
7. The Barrow Declaration - Russian
8. The Nuuk Declaration
9. The Iqaluit Declaration
10. The Inuvik Declaration
11. The Alta Declaration
12. The signed Barrow Declaration
13. The signed Iqaluit Declaration
14. The signed Inari Declaration
15. The signed Reykjavik Declaration

Founding documents

1. Declaration on Establishment of The Arctic Council
2. Joint Communique of the Governments of the Arctic Countries
3. Rules of Procedure
4. Terms of Reference for a Sustainable Development Programme
5. Framework Document (Chapeau) for the Sustainable Development Programme

Statements

1. Arctic Council Statement on Climate Change in the Arctic Region delivered at the UNFCCC Montreal 9 December 2005
2. Statement by the Executive Secretary at a Seminar of the Nordic Council of Ministers on The Northern Dimension Environmental Co-operation, St. Petersburg 24 April 2003
3. Statement on behalf of the Chair of Senior Arctic Officials at the West-Nordic Council Health Conference, Illulissat, Greenland, 11 June 2003
4. Statement on behalf of the Chair of Senior Arctic Officials at the XXVI Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, Madrid 16 June 2003
5. Statement on behalf of the Chairman of Senior Arctic Officials, delivered by H.E. Ambassador Benedikt Jónsson
6. Statement at the UNEP Governing Council, Nairobi, 3-7 February 2003
7. Statement by the Chairman of the Senior Arctic Officials at the GRID Arendal Arctic Science and Policy Workshop, Arendal, 16 September 2003
8. Statement at the COFI Twenty-fifth Session, Rome, 24-28 February 2003
9. Hydrogen use and the Arctic -Address delivered on behalf of the Chairman of Senior Arctic Officials at a meeting of the International Partnership for Hydrogen Economy, Reisenburg, Germany, 2 March 2004
10. The Arctic science - policy interface - Statement delivered on behalf of Ambassador Gunnar Pálsson at the meeting of IGFA in Reykjvaík on 6 October 2004
11. Responding to the impacts of global change in the North: Statement by Ambassador Gunnar Pálsson, Charirman of the Senior Arctic Officials, at the Northern Research Forum in Yellowknife, Canada, 15 September 2004
12. Adaption to Climate Change. Statement by H.E. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland and Chairman of the Arctic Council at the Science Day of the Arctic Science Summit Week
13. Statement by the Chair at the 6th General Assembly of the Northern Forum, St. Petersburg, 25. Apríl 2003
14. Statement on behalf of the Chairman of SAO at the UNECE Regional Implementation Forum on Sustainable Development, Geneva 15-16 January 2004
15. Statement on freshwater - delivered by Ambassador Ingimundur Sigfusson, 3rd World Water Forum, Kyoto, Japan, 20 March 2003
16. Statement by the Chairman of the Senior Arctic Chair Officials at the Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands
17. The Arctic is more than environment - Statement made by Ambassador Gunnar Pálsson at the 6th Conference of the parliamentarians of the Arctic Region in Nuuk 3 September 2004
18. Statement on behalf of the Chairman of SAO at the International Polar Year meeting in St. Petersburg 22 January 2004
19. The Oceans and the United Nations: Statement by the Chairman of SAOs at the 58th Session of the UN General Assembly, 24 November 2003
20. Statement by the Chairman of the Senior Arctic Officials at a Conference of the Greenwich Forum, 18 November 2003
21. Statement by the Chair at the United Nations Comission on Sustainable Development, New York, 30 Apríl 2003
22. Statement by the Chair at the United Nations Open-ended Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, New York, 2-6 June 2003