{"id":1471,"date":"2010-02-12T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:56:49","slug":"inuit-expect-to-be-invited-to-oceans-five-foreign-affairs-ministers-summit-on-arctic-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/press-releases\/inuit-expect-to-be-invited-to-oceans-five-foreign-affairs-ministers-summit-on-arctic-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Inuit Expect to be Invited to Oceans Five Foreign Affairs Ministers\u2019 Summit on Arctic Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nOttawa \u2013 12 February 2010 \u2013 The Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), visiting Ottawa this week from Alaska, announced today that he expects that Inuit will be invited to the summit of five foreign affairs ministers, hosted by Canada next month. The five ministers, representing those Arctic states that border the Arctic Ocean, will be discussing matters of Arctic sovereignty.\r\n\r\nIn a letter addressed to Canada\u2019s minister of foreign affairs and host of the meeting, the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Mr. Stotts reminded him of the speech Mr. Cannon gave at the Arctic Council ministerial last April in Troms\u00f8, Norway, just after ICC launched the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty.\r\n\r\nIn that speech, Minister Cannon welcomed the conciliatory language he found in the Inuit Declaration, saying \u201cI would underline the importance of dialogue between states, indigenous peoples and Northerners\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe ICC Chair said he welcomed the tone of Mr. Cannon\u2019s comments in Troms\u00f8 when Mr. Cannon also said that Inuit interests and concerns should be \u201creflected in the deliberations of other multi-lateral institutions because decisions there will affect Arctic peoples.\u201d Mr. Stotts added, \u201cgiven these words, I expect Inuit will be given an invitation to be active participants in the upcoming sovereignty summit\u201d.\r\n\r\nDuane Smith, ICC Canada President said that he understands that states may wish to meet outside the Arctic Council from time to time on various issues the Council does not address. \u201cBecause Inuit are a coastal people, because this summit is about the Arctic Ocean coast, and because Mr. Cannon underlined the importance of our involvement in multi-lateral meetings outside the Arctic Council\u201d, Mr. Stotts concluded, \u201cI expect we will be given an invitation to play a meaningful role at this important summit\u201d.\r\n\r\nFor more information:\r\n\r\nCorinne Gray\r\nExecutive Director\r\nICC Canada\r\nTel: +613 563 2642 cgray@inuitcircumpolar.com\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-1471","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\/1471","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=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987515317,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/987515317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}