Permanent Participants
The category of Permanent Participant provides for the active participation and full consultation with the arctic indigenous representatives within the Arctic Council. Two new organizations were approved as Permanent Participants at the October 2000 Barrow Ministerial, bringing the total to six.
The Permanent Participants of the Arctic Council are:
- Aleut International Association (AIA)
- Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC)
- Gwich'in Council International (GCI)
- Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC)
- Saami Council
- Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON)
The Permanent Participants are supported by the:
Indigenous Peoples Secretariat
http://www.arcticpeoples.org/
P.O. Box 2151, Strandgade 91, 4th floor
DK - 1016 Copenhagen
Phone : +45 32 83 37 90
Fax : +45 33 83 37 91
E-mail : ips@ghsdk.dk
The Arctic Council's Permanent Participants and POP's
