Is Norway in international law obliged to maintain reindeer husbandry?
The answer is yesaccording to what is written in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food (LMD )'s draft revision of the Reindeer husbandry Act. The draft has been sent to the Sami Parliament for treatment.
There one can read that «SP Article 27 also includes a duty to take positive measures when necessary to protect the minority. ».»
What is stated in Article 27 of the «UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights« Is that » « In the states where there are ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities, those belonging to such minorities should not be denied the right, along with other members of their group, to cultivate their own culture, confess to and exercise their own religion, or use their own language. «
Here the LMD « reverses«not denied the right to»To become a duty to take positive measures. This means, among other things, the view that the state, in the future, has an international obligation to transfer sufficient money to the reindeer husbandry reindeer husbandry, so that it can maintain its existence.
LMD promotes a new doctrine on how the mentioned article in the said Convention should be understood internally in Norway. By coming from an AP government, this can also be described as a new AP doctrine.
With this, LMD also promotes the view that the Norwegian state is obliged to provide positive support to maintain any ethnic, religious and linguistic minority found II Norway. It does not matter whether there are old or new ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities in Norway.
This is about the principle of equality for the law.
If the Storting gives its support to this understanding, then it will be referred to this constantly in Sami political contexts. This as an indisputable truth.
