Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first US Secretary of State to attend the Council's biennial meeting of ministers, held this year in Nuuk (Greenland). She was accompanied by the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, and Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska. During an interview she addressed the need for the US to join UNCLOS saying: “We are going to raise the visibility of Arctic issues back in the United States so that we can begin to take the steps that are necessary for us,” She reiterated the administration’s call to ratify and said that it was “way overdue.”
Source: New York Times
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