00                      SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 17                                                                    
01 Relating to the Alaska-Yukon Intergovernmental Relations Accord, to annual legislative                                  
02 exchanges, and to continuing intergovernmental work on matters of joint concern and                                     
03 mutual interest.                                                                                                        
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05       WHEREAS the citizens of Yukon Territory, Canada, and the citizens of Alaska share                               
06 many interests and connections, and have long enjoyed an extensive and open common                                      
07 border; and                                                                                                             
08       WHEREAS the Yukon Legislative Assembly and the Alaska State legislature have a                                  
09 longstanding tradition of annual legislative exchanges since 1980; and                                                  
10       WHEREAS Pat Duncan, the former Premier of the Yukon, and Tony Knowles, the                                      
11 former Governor of Alaska, signed the Alaska-Yukon Intergovernmental Relations Accord on                                
12 September 8, 2000, for Alaska and the Yukon Territory to work together on matters of joint                              
13 concern and enter into specific cooperative arrangements; and                                                           
14       WHEREAS the Alaska-Yukon Intergovernmental Relations Accord will expire on                                      
15 September 8, 2003;                                                                                                      

01       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature supports the extension of the                                  
02 Alaska-Yukon Intergovernmental Relations Accord; and be it                                                              
03       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature offers to continue to                                        
04 engage in annual legislative exchanges with the Yukon Legislative Assembly and to continue                              
05 to work with the Yukon Legislative Assembly on matters of joint concern and mutual interest.                            
06       A COPY of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Dennis Fentie, Premier of                              
07 Yukon Territory.