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The Yearbook of Polar Law IV (2012): 189204 Fiammetta Borgia* and Paolo Vargiu** 1.Introduction On April 28, 2009, a delegation of Inuit leaders from Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Russia issued the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty.1 The Declaration represented a reaction to the exclusion of the Inuit from the 2008 Ilulissat Summit, and was aimed at formally rejecting any attempt to shape the destiny of the Arctic without the participation of the indigenous peoples of the region. The Inuit declaration asserted the crucial role of the right to self-determination, being the right to freely determine the political status, freely pursue the economic, social, cultural and linguistic development, and freely dispose of the natural wealth and resources to the Inuit people. It was noted in the Declaration that sovereignty "has often been used to refer to the absolute and independent authority of a community or nation both internally and externally."2 Sovereignty is an issue that plays a key role in the problem of the Inuit rights.3 The traditionally accepted concept of sovereignty under international law is at the basis of the progressive marginalization of the Inuit in the Arctic region. However, the concept of sovereignty is to be
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Published: Jan 1, 2012
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