The 2005 Draft Nordic Sámi Convention and the implementation of the right of the Sámi people to self-determination

In 2005, an expert group representing the governments of Finland, Norway and Sweden together with the Sámi parliaments, adopted a Draft Nordic Sámi Convention. The document recognises the right of the Sámi people to self-determination. However, ten years later, adoption of the Convention has not yet occurred. Against this backdrop, the role of the present analysis is to reassert the value of the Draft Nordic Sámi Convention and to explain how the Draft Convention seeks to implement the right of the Sámi people to self-determination.