What the USA will bring to its chairmanship of the Arctic Council

The results of Canada’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council (2013-2015) and the Iqaluit declaration signed on the 24 th of April 2015 are analyzed in the present article. The author is convinced that the United States intend to use their Arctic Council chairmanship (2015-2017) to solve the US internal problems related to the Arctic areas. The program for the US Chairmanship has three focus areas: improving the economic and living conditions of the Arctic communities; Arctic Ocean safety, security and stewardship and the impacts of the climate change. The United States hope for constructive cooperation with Russia aimed at solving these problems.