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Arctic Council

image by Zoltan Horvath, 15 October 2013

Arctic Council
About the flag
Previously Reported Flag
Indigenous member communities' flags

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International Organizations

Arctic Council

The Arctic Council is a high-level intergovernmental forum which addresses issues faced by the Arctic governments and the indigenous people of the Arctic. The Ottawa Declaration of 1996 formally established the Arctic Council as a high level intergovernmental forum to provide a means for promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States, with the involvement of the Arctic Indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common Arctic issues, in particular issues of sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic. Member States of the Arctic Council are Canada, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States of America.
In addition to the Member States, the Arctic Council has the category of Permanent Participants. This category is open equally to Arctic organizations of indigenous peoples with a majority of Arctic Indigenous constituency representing a single Indigenous people resident in more than one Arctic State; or more than one Arctic Indigenous people resident in a single Arctic State.
Home page: http://www.arctic-council.org/
Zoltan Horvath, 25 February 2010

About the Flag

Variant flag; image by Jean-Marc Merklin, 20 May 2023

Its flag is white with its emblem, which is a arctic fox and the globe from North Pole representing the area where this organization operates.
Image of flag: http://arctic-council.org/imagearchive/caseimage_slideshowpicture_hjul12.jpg.
Indigenous Peoples at the Arctic Council also have flags, some of them can be seen at: http://arctic-council.org/imagearchive/caseimage_slideshowpicture_sao2.jpg. Home page of Indigenous Peoples where their emblems are available: http://www.arcticpeoples.org/.
Zoltan Horvath, 25 February 2010

I found updated info about flag of Arctic Council. English name of the Council in blue letters is placed under two globes.
Images of flag: Image 1 and Image 2
Zoltan Horvath, 15 October 2013

Previously Reported Flag

image by Zoltan Horvath, 25 February 2010

Indigenous Member Communities' Flags

"As of 2014, six Arctic indigenous communities have Permanent Participant status. These groups are represented by the Aleut International Association (AIA), Arctic Athabaskan Council, Gwich'in Council International, Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), and the Saami Council. These indigenous organisations vary widely in their organisational capacities and the size of the population they represent. To illustrate, RAIPON represents some 250,000 indigenous people of various (mostly Siberian) tribes; the ICC some 150,000 Inuit. On the other hand, the Gwich'in Council and the Aleut Association each represent only a few thousand people."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Council
These indigenous communities' flags are seen here.
Source: http://globalwarmingisreal.com/2015/07/16/politics-of-a-warming-arctic/
Esteban Rivera, 23 November 2015