Sentences with phrase «council observer states»
Meanwhile, China, India, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea became Arctic Council observer states in 2013.
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Among the issues Canada will need to address as chair, one stands out the most: deciding whether non-Arctic states should be admitted into the Council as official observers.
«There are 20 other countries that have already expressed an interest,» says Mr. Sokolov, who notes that at a May Arctic Council meeting, members blocked several nonnorthern states — including China, Japan, South Korea, and the European Union — from becoming «permanent observers» in the group.
The Arctic Council is the intergovernmental body charged with coordinating the eight Arctic states: Canada; Denmark, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands; Finland; Iceland; Norway; Russia; Sweden and the United States — along with a number of observer nations, indigenous groups and organizastates: Canada; Denmark, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands; Finland; Iceland; Norway; Russia; Sweden and the United States — along with a number of observer nations, indigenous groups and organizaStates — along with a number of observer nations, indigenous groups and organizations.
Most of this work is undertaken through the ICAO Council's Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP), which consists of Members and Observers from States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations representing aviation industry and environmental interests.
ARENA involves a number of European nations via the Arctic Council — member states (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland), and observer nations (the Netherlands, France, Poland, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Italy).
Thus the Council of Europe (most European countries, plus Canada and the U.S. as observers) adopted the Convention on Cybercrime in 2004 that requires member states to impose obligations on Internet intermediaries to keep traffic information for two years and make it available to law enforcement and security interests.