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This paper argues that developing countries like India must begin to play an active role in negotiations regarding the Arctic, as they are doing in negotiations over space and climate change. To do this India must develop a policy stance on the issue and set out actions. The first would be to become an ad hoc observer to the Arctic Council. At the same time, India's 'strategic community' needs to take the lead in articulating the idea of including the Arctic in the country's discourse on global commons.