The Arctic Search and Rescue Agreement was concluded on May 12, 2011, in Nuuk, Greenland, by the eight member states of the Arctic Council: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. It was the first legally binding agreement negotiated under the Arctic Council, and it divides the Arctic into search and rescue zones of responsibility for each state while specifying that this delimitation does not affect or prejudice any boundary or sovereignty dispute among the parties. Canada serves as the depositary of the treaty, and it entered into force on January 19, 2013, once all eight states had ratified it.
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The Arctic Search and Rescue Agreement was concluded on May 12, 2011, in Nuuk, Greenland, by the eight member states of the Arctic Council: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.
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The Arctic Search and Rescue Agreement (formally the Agreement on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic) is an international treaty concluded among the member states of the Arctic Council, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States, on 12 May 2011 in Nuuk, Greenland.
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