The election of Mr. Lynge as ICC Chair for the next 4-year term came as no surprise. Mr. Lynge has been leading ICC Greenland for many years. It is the second time that he is leading the international organization. The first time that he served as ICC President was from 1997 to 2002.
The agenda of the final day of the general assembly also comprised a revision of the ICC founding charter as well as amendments of its bylaws. A proposal to reduce the number of general assembly delegates from the Chukotkan chapter of ICC from 18 to 12 got approved.
As its last performance the outgoing ICC executive council adopted the Nuuk Declaration, the official outcome of the 11th general assembly. The declaration duly references the Arctic Council and ICC permanent participant status therein, the UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples, as well as the organization’s own Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Sovereignty in the Arctic.
Finally, the new ICC executive council got presented, albeit ”new” is perhaps not the right expression as familiar faces make up the council. One exception is Kirt Ejesiak who has been elected Vice President and one of the two ICC Canada members of the Executive Council. As noted by former Chair Jimmy Stotts, Kirt Ejesiak is not only new, but even young blood. His election for the executive council was met with enthusiastic applause from the people assembled in the cultural hall of Nuuk city.
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