Saami Council
- Category: Permanent Participants
- Published on 15 April 2011
Website: www.saamicouncil.net
President
Olav Mathis Eira
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The Secretariat
FIN-99980 Ohcejohka (Utsjoki)
Finland
Tel.: +358 16 677 351
Fax: +358 16 677 353
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Gunn Britt Retter
Head of Arctic- and Environmental Unit
Tel +47 994 90 344
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The Saami Council is a voluntary Saami organization (a non–governmental organization), with Saami member organizations in Finland, Russia, Norway and Sweden. Since its foundation in 1956 the Saami Council has actively dealt with Saami policy tasks. For this reason the Saami Council is one of the indigenous peoples’ organizations which have existed longest.
The primary aim of the Saami Council is the promotion of Saami rights and interests in the four countries where the Saami are living, to consolidate the feeling of affinity among the Saami people, to attain recognition for the Saami as a nation and to maintain the economic, social and cultural rights of the Saami in the legislation of the four states. (Norway, Sweden, Russia and Finland). This objective can be achieved through agreements between these states and the bodies representing the Saami people, the Saami parliaments.
Saami Council renders opinions and makes proposals on questions concerning Saami people’s rights, language and culture and especially on issues concerning Saami in different countries.
