{"id":528,"date":"2017-05-12T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:58:06","slug":"icc-takes-the-opportunity-to-observe-and-reflect-the-arctic-council-ministerial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/press-releases\/icc-takes-the-opportunity-to-observe-and-reflect-the-arctic-council-ministerial\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Takes the Opportunity to Observe and Reflect the Arctic Council Ministerial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nFairbanks, Alaska - ICC Chair, Okalik Eegeesiak said yesterday at the Arctic Council Ministerial in Fairbanks, \u201cLast year the Arctic Council celebrated twenty years \u2013 this year the Inuit Circumpolar Council celebrates 40 years. Eegeesiak shared, \u201cWe need to take a moment to step back and observe where we have come from, where we are now, and where we want to go,\u201d she said.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe United States has worked hard to advance the Arctic Council and we celebrate the success of their chairmanship\u201d offered Nancy Karetak-Lindell, ICC Canada President. \u201cThe U.S. chairmanship expanded the role of the Council and the Permanent Participants \u2013 we are moving from policy shaping to policy making and to this end, ICC believes the U.S. has made progress by supporting the peoples of the north and supporting effective policy development during their chairmanship. This is an ongoing evolution; each chairmanship moves the target forward as they bring new vision and life to the Council \u2013 this is healthy \u2013 this allows for renewal,\u201d\r\n\r\nAs the eight Arctic states reflect on the US Chairmanship and welcome the incoming Finnish Chair, Jim Stotts ICC Alaska President offered, \u201cWe must note that the results of all of the work done during the U.S. chairmanship would have benefitted greatly from an earlier involvement of the Permanent Participants during project planning stages and through the use of Indigenous Knowledge.\u201d Stotts said, \u201cBy using Indigenous Knowledge and science together we ensure a more complete and improved result in the work of the Council.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cWe urge the Arctic states to continue to work towards more meaningful engagement with the Permanent Participants and to continue to build upon this partnership, evolve and move the bench- mark up,\u201d stated Eegeesiak.\r\n\r\nHjalmar Dahl, ICC Greenland President suggested, \u201cICC commends Finland\u2019s effort to support the importance of education in fostering sustainable development in Arctic communities and invokes all to participate in the ICC Education Summit in 2018 in Greenland.\u201d Dahl offered, \u201cWe cannot overstate it is time to move forward on this issue and close the gap between southern and Arctic communities. We need innovative models and equal access to high quality education at all levels, from early childhood to post-secondary.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor more information:\r\n\r\nCarole Simon\r\nICC Canada csimon@inuitcircumpolar.com 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":[25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987515381,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/987515381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inuitcircumpolar.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}