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Barents Euro-Arctic Council

The Foreign Ministers of Norway, Sweden, Russia and Finland at the Barents Council meeting in Murmansk in October 2009. From leff: Jonas Gahr Støre, Carl Bildt, Sergey Lavrov and Alexander Stubb. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

The Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) is the forum for intergovernmental cooperation on issues concerning the Barents Region.

Location

The BEAC meets at Foreign Ministers level in the chairmanship country at the end of term of office. The chairmanship rotates every second year, between Norway, Finland, Russia and Sweden.

Norway took over the BEAC Chairmanship at the XIII BEAC Ministerial Session, Kiruna, Sweden, on October 12, 2011.

The Working Group of Indigenous Peoples has an advisory role and cooperates closely with both the BEAC and the BRC.