IASC 25 years | Page 17

by Odd Rogne The struggle over the IASC Secretariat and the birth of the Finnish Initiative As it was a night shift, I had ordered a good bottle of whisky, so we left the issue at hand and had a creative discussion about the Soviet Union, and in « At the Stockholm meeting, the question about particular the pollution drifting from Russia to Fin- an IASC Secretariat arose. As only the Nordic coun- land—an issue he had worked hard on as ambassa- tries were interested, the issue was referred to dor to Moscow. However, he had not succeeded. the ‘Nordic consultations on polar affairs.’ The ne