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common and unified positions to ensure a joint approach to the IMO and other international or
regional negotiations. The establishment of a coordinated Arctic Voice will allow for management
on an ecosystem level, which is the best tool for ensuring sustainable management of marine
resources in the Arctic by promoting at the global level through different regulatory bodies the
principles of ecosystem based management (Arctic Council EBM Report, 2013). There are many
complications and political challenges to the provision of leadership by the Arctic Council to
support advances in global-level negotiations, especially with regards to a mandatory Polar Code
embedded in the Law of the Sea Convention, but the Arctic Council must equip itself with venues
that provide opportunities to explore common ground and enact a coherent and strengthened
Arctic-wide diplomacy, an Arctic Voice.
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