{"id":1461,"date":"2010-09-30T14:41:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:56:56","slug":"inuit-circumpolar-council-meets-in-greenland-plans-made-for-inuit-leaders-summit-on-resource-development-february-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/press-releases\/inuit-circumpolar-council-meets-in-greenland-plans-made-for-inuit-leaders-summit-on-resource-development-february-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Inuit Circumpolar Council meets in Greenland: Plans made for Inuit leaders\u2019 summit on resource development February 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n30 September 2010 \u2013 Nuuk, Greenland \u2013 Following the signing of the Nuuk Declaration in July of this year, the executive of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) completed their first formal meeting here this week.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe were given a clear message from the delegates at the General Assembly in July to move forward onmany mandates\u201d, said ICC Chair and Greenlander, Aqqaluk Lynge, \u201cbut the most urgent they told us was to plan an Inuit leaders\u2019 summit on resource development.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe Nuuk Declaration is ICC\u2019s central guide until 2014, at which time Canadian Inuit will host Inuit from Alaska, Greenland, and Russia at the next quadrennial General Assembly.\r\n\r\nICC Canada president and ICC Vice-Chair, Duane Smith, stated that the Inuit leaders\u2019 summit will in all likelihood be held in Canada in February 2011. He added, \u201cfor Canadian Inuit, as for others, the key issueof the summit will be how to improve our quality of life through careful development of the resource sector while at the same time aim to agree on a set of principles that would safeguard our Inuit Arctic homeland in a sustainable and pollution-free manner\u201d. The exact dates and place of the summit will be announced by ICC in the next few weeks.\r\n\r\nThe ICC executive council also discussed issues as diverse as the European seal import ban, promoting the Inuit language, the Arctic Council, Inuit health, contaminants, circumpolar education, and human rights. The executive council members all pledged to tackle as many of the mandates of the Nuuk Declaration as possible by the time their mandate in 2014 comes to an end.\r\n\r\nICC Canada vice president, Kirt Ejesiak, who attended his first ever executive council meeting as ICC council member, pledged to work on strengthening and renewal of the Inuit Circumpolar Council. He was also given the mandate of how to best integrate Inuit youth into the work of ICC. \u201cI am honoured to serve the Inuit of Canada\u201d, said Mr. Ejesiak,\u201d especially in the area of ICC renewal and fostering greater youthinvolvement\u201d.\r\n\r\nMr. Smith concluded by saying, \u201cthe resource sector is not our enemy but ICC will remind them that they cannot take us or our Arctic homeland for granted. ICC will continue to fight for a clean, safe, andabundant environment for decades to come\u201d.\r\n\r\nFor more information:\r\n\r\nCarole Simon csimon@inuitcircumpolar.com +1 613 563 2642\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-41","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987515323,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/987515323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}