Part 3. mac-2017 resulting documents

3.1. Types of MAC-2018 Resulting Documents

3.2. Drafts of MAC-2018 Resulting Documents

3.3. Consideration of MAC-2018 Resulting Documents

3.4. Adoption of MAC-2018 Resulting Documents

 

Part 1. general provisions

                                                                                                                             

In the spirit of the Declaration on the Establishment of the Arctic Council of September 19, 1996 and the Arctic Council Rules of Procedure (as revised in 2013), the III Moscow Youth International Model Arctic Council (hereinafter “MAC-2018”) adopts the present Rules of Procedure in order to regulate the process of simulating the Arctic Council work.

Mac-2018 objective and purposes

The central objective of MAC-2018 is to assemble the talented and engaged youth of the Arctic States, Arctic indigenous peoples, create a platform for their exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience and give an additional drive to their inter-regional and international cooperation.

 

MAC-2018 goals are:

1) To popularize among the Arctic youth the knowledge about the strategical importance of the Arctic Region development, as well as information about the goals, objectives, structure, activities and current agenda of the Arctic Council as the leading international forum for cooperation in the region;

2) To promote the students’ research activities related to the Arctic Region issues;

3) To intensify inter-regional and international cooperation between the Arctic Youth in the form of joint projects and researches focused on the Arctic Region development;

4) To raise among the Arctic Youth the interdisciplinary awareness of different aspects of the Arctic Region development, as well as foster their ecological consciousness and active civic position.

 

 

MAC-2018 RULES OF PROCEDURE

The present Rules of Procedure shall guide the proceedings at the MAC-2018 sessions (simulated events: Joint Meeting of the Arctic Council Working Groups, Meeting of Senior Arctic Officials and Ministerial Meeting).

The present Rules of Procedure shall be interpreted by solely MAC-2018 Secretariat.

 

Definitions

In the present Rules of Procedure:

«Arctic States» means the members of the Arctic Council, namely Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden and the United States of America;

«Permanent Participants» means 6 organizations of the Arctic Indigenous peoples, namely Aleut International Association (AIA), Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC), Gwich’in Council International (GCI), Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Russian Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) and Saami Council (SC).

«Working Group» stands for any of the 6 Arctic Council Working Groups (Arctic Contaminants Action Program (ACAP), Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), Emergence Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR), Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME), Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG));

«Working Group Project» means a proposal on joint and cooperative work of the Arctic States in a certain field for the attainment of their common goals in the Arctic Region, drawn up by an Arctic Council Working Group, approved by the Arctic States’ governments and implemented on their own territories;

«Model» means the Moscow Youth International Model Arctic Council (MAC-2017);

«Secretariat» means the MAC-2018 Secretariat – for details see the present Rules of Procedure, & 1.5.;

«MAC-2018 Working Group Project» means a proposal on joint and cooperative work of the Arctic States in a certain field for the attainment of their common goals in the Arctic Region, draw up by a group of MAC-2018 Participants, simulating the work of a certain Arctic Council Working Group, with the project’s structure and contents simulating the structure and contents of a real Working Group Project.

 

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