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 <title>Agreement on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic</title>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:59:32 +0200</pubDate>
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 <title>OSPAR E-Newsletter issue 5</title>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:40:33 +0100</pubDate>
 <link>http://www.arcticgovernance.org/ospar-e-newsletter-issue-5.4886105.html</link>
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 <title>Inuvialuit Final Agreement</title>
 <description>After ten years of negotiations, the Government of Canada and the Inuvialuit signed the &quot;Inuvialuit Final Agreement&quot; or &quot;IFA&quot; June 5, 1984. It was the first comprehensive land claim agreement signed north of the 60th parallel and only the second in Canada at that time.</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:11:39 +0100</pubDate>
 <link>http://www.arcticgovernance.org/inuvialuit-final-agreement.4881121.html</link>
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 <title>Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)</title>
 <description>Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 USC 1601-1624) -- Public Law 92-203, approved December 18, 1971 (85 Stat. 688), and repeatedly amended, authorized Alaska Natives to select and receive title to 44 million acres of public land in Alaska, and $962,000,000 in cash as settlement of their aboriginal claim to land in the State. The Act established a system of village and regional Native corporations to manage the lands and cash payments, and made extensive provisions regarding the operations of the corporations.</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:26:14 +0100</pubDate>
 <link>http://www.arcticgovernance.org/alaska-native-claims-settlement-act-ancsa.4881116.html</link>
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 <title>U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Agreement</title>
 <description>An agreement signed between U.S. and Russia in October 2000. The agreement creates a joint commission that establishes policy and sets annual harvest limits. The agreement gives indigenous peoples in Chukotka and Alaska the ability to veto any decision that would be counter to their interests under the treaty.</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:13:42 +0100</pubDate>
 <link>http://www.arcticgovernance.org/u-s-russia-polar-bear-agreement.4881114.html</link>
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 <title>The Ilulissat Declaration</title>
 <description>ARCTIC OCEAN CONFERENCE, ILULISSAT, GREENLAND, 27 – 29 MAY 2008</description>
 <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:59:50 +0100</pubDate>
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 <title>European Economic Area (EEA)</title>
 <description>The Agreement creating the European Economic Area (EEA) entered into force on 1 January 1994. It allows the EEA EFTA States (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) to participate in the Internal Market on the basis of their application of Internal Market relevant acquis. All new relevant Community legislation is dynamically incorporated into the Agreement and thus applies throughout the EEA, ensuring the homogeneity of the internal market.</description>
 <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:46:45 +0100</pubDate>
 <link>http://www.arcticgovernance.org/european-economic-area-eea.4872418.html</link>
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 <title>Joint Statement on maritime delimitation and cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean</title>
 <description>Foreign Minister Støre and his Russian colleague, Foreign Minister Lavrov, signed a joint statement today announcing that agreement has been reached on the delimitation line in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:34:17 +0200</pubDate>
 <link>http://www.arcticgovernance.org/joint-statement-on-maritime-delimitation-and-cooperation-in-the-barents-sea-and-the-arctic-ocean.4779363.html</link>
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 <title>North Slope Borough</title>
 <description>The Alaska North Slope is the region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi Sea being on the western side of Point Barrow, and the Beaufort Sea on the eastern.</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:26:28 +0100</pubDate>
 <link>http://www.arcticgovernance.org/north-slope-borough.4745156.html</link>
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 <title>Gwich'in Traditional government</title>
 <description>Videos about Gwich'in traditional self-government</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:47:23 +0100</pubDate>
 <link>http://www.arcticgovernance.org/gwichin-traditional-government.4745090.html</link>
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