Summary: | The year 2019 marked the end of the Finnish and the onset of the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council – a transfer ceremonially performed as the Foreign Minister of Finland at the time, Timo Soini, handed over the gavel to his Icelandic counterpart, Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, at the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, in May. The year 2019 marked the end of the Finnish and the onset of the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council – a transfer ceremonially performed as the Foreign Minister of Finland at the time, Timo Soini, handed over the gavel to his Icelandic counterpart, Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, at the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, in May.
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