Iqaluit gets ready for Arctic Council meeting – CBC

Apr 23, 2015

Ministers from the eight Arctic nations and the leaders of northern indigenous groups are arriving in Iqaluit today and early tomorrow morning for the Arctic Council ministerial meeting that will see the U.S. take over from Canada for its two-year term at the helm.

Hotels are full and the city’s Cadet Hall has been set up to accommodate local, national and international media.

The meeting itself — between the ministers and the indigenous representatives, who hold permanent participant status — will be held in the chamber of Nunavut’s legislative assembly. Most of those meetings will be closed to the public.

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