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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe – the USA just wants to go

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Fairbanks, Alaska:
Rex Tillerson, the American Secretary of State, yesterday use five minutes in public to finish off the American chairmanship of the Arctic Council. There was not much to suggest it came with a heavy heart. Tillerson’s speech was as indifferent and cool as an icicle in the beard of a rugged Alaskan trapper.



Came, saw and went









Sami breakthrough










Lavrov will a well-founded smile



And while the Americans refused to hand out pictures from the meetings with the Russian Foreign Minister, the Russian MFA willingly distributed pictures of an ever-smiling Lavrov meeting with a somewhat tense Trump.






Insecure future




















Gunn-Britt Retter of the Sami Council pointed to several challenges facing the Arctic Council. (Photo: Arne O. Holm)
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ever-smiling when meeting his seven Arctic colleagues. (Photo: Arne O. Holm)
There is something presidential about the car wrecks that decorate properties in rural Alaska. (Photo: Arne O. Holm)
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