Representatives of the governments of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States of America met on September 16, 1993, at Nuuk, Greeland, for the Second Ministerial Conference on the Protection of the Arctic Environment. The Ministerial Conference was also attended by observers from Chile, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Nordic Council, the Northern Forum, the International Arctic Science Committee, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, the Saami Council, and the Russian Association of Peoples of the North. The Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to protect and preserve the Arctic environment and fully recognized the special relationship of the indigenous peoples and local populations to the Arctic and their unique contribution to the protection of the Arctic environment.
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