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Greenland: a country in transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Tom Høyem
Tom Høyem
Affiliation:
Headmaster, European School, Culham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 0X14 3DZ
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On 4 August 1948, in Godthåb/Nuuk, Greenland, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Denmark's modern Arctic policy was founded. The political initiator was Hans Hedtoft, the Danish Prime Minister. The centre of Denmark's Arctic policy is Greenland, but our policy is not a Greenland policy only. Arctic policies are about people and nature, about resources and security, about high technology and traditional Arctic patterns of life. In a high degree they are a matter of cooperation between the local population and the state authorities. All these elements were present when the Danish Prime Minister presented his modern Arctic policy in August 1948.

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Articles
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Polar Record , Volume 24 , Issue 148 , January 1988 , pp. 9 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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