After the Oslo meeting, the following happened:
For IASC planning, this speech was crucial as it could
- The small working group (Rogne, Roots, Taagholt)
be seen as backing from the largest Arctic country
gathered together earlier texts as well as ideas put
and contained key elements from the IASC planning
forward at the Oslo meeting. This publication “Inter-
documents.
national Communication and Co-ordination in Arctic
Science: A Proposal for Action” (Roots, Rogne, and
The Stockholm Meeting
Taagholt), also referred to as the RRT Report,5 is
The Swedes had offered to organize the next meet-
a rather comprehensive report on the need for an
ing. Meanwhile Gorbachev had held his Murmansk
organization like IASC and how to create an entity
speech, and there were some attempts from the
that would meet those needs. The report formed
Soviets to get the next planning meeting in Mur-
the basis for further planning (and for educating
mansk. However, the decision was to keep with
those who later became involved in the IASC plan-
Stockholm (as preparations for that meeting were
ning process). The report also drew attention to the
well in progress)