This document written by Mads Fægteborg includes reflections and background about the three Arctic Leaders Summit held 1991, 1995 and 1999. Document includes all the Declarations of these three Summits.

"The Arctic Leaders’ Summit is not a historical society, but a forum, where present and future matters of common concern are discussed" (Fægteborg 2005, page 4). To this day there have been organised four Arctic Leaders Summits (ALS). The recent one has been held in Canada hosted by Arctic Athabascan Council.

• 1st ALS: The first meeting was hosted by the pan-Eskimo organisation Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) June 17-20, 1991 in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen in Denmark.
• 2nd ALS: The second meeting was hosted by the third large indigenous organisation in the Arctic, the Saami Council (SC) in Tromsø, a beautiful city of the Norwegian Arctic, January 25-27, 1995,
• 3rd ALS: The third meeting was hosted by the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) in the capital of the Russian Federation, Moscow, September 14-16, 1999.
• 4th ALS: The fourth meeting was hosted by the Arctic Athabascan Council in Canada in Montreal and Hay River December 1-6 and 11-12, 2005.