Observers
The Ottawa Declaration on the Establishment of the Arctic Council allows for the participation in Council activities by:
a) non-Arctic states;
b) inter-governmental and inter-parliamentary organizations, global and regional; and
c) non-governmental organizations
that the Council determines can contribute to its work.
Observers accredited to the Arctic Council include:
a) observer countries
* France - http://www.internet.gouv.fr/english/sommaire.html
* Germany - http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de
* The Netherlands - http://www.minbuza.nl/english
* Poland - http://poland.pl
* United Kingdom - http://www.fco.gov.uk/
b) international organisations
* Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region - http://www.arcticparl.org/
* International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - http://www.ifrc.org/
* International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - http://www.iucn.org/
* Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) - http://www.norden.org/index_uk.html
* Northern Forum - http://www.northernforum.org/
* North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) - http://www.nammco.no/
* United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) - http://www.unece.org/
* United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) - http://www.grida.no/
* United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - http://www.undp.org
c) NGOs
* Advisory Committee on Protection of the Seas (ACOPS) - http://www.acops.org/
* Association of World Reindeer Herders
* Circumpolar Conservation Union (CCU) - http://www.circumpolar.org/
* International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) - http://www.iasc.no/
* International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) - http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/iassa/
* International Union for Circumpolar Health (IUCH) - http://www.iuch.org
* International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) - http://www.iwgia.org/
* University of the Arctic (UArctic) - http://www.urova.fi/home/uarctic/
* Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) - http://ngo.grida.no/wwfap/
