Subject: GREENLAND: Yes to Registred Partnership Source: Reporter 5/94 - Jon Voss Greenland has as third Nordic country decided to give gay or lesbian couples the right to register their partnerships. In 1989 when Denmark got its Registred Partnership Law, the selfruling countries Greenland and the Faroe Islands decided not to approve the reform. In february this year Greenland's Parliament, Landstinget, had changed it mind and decided to launch the law even in Greenland. The initiative to the changed attitude in Landstinget is said to have come from Henriette Rasmussen, minister for social affairs. Rasmussen claimed, that 1994 is the UN year of the family, and it's therefore important to pay attention to even other forms of families then just the traditional one. Before the Greenlandic law of registred partnership gains legal force, Greenlands government has to request the Danish government, via a Royl decree, to let the Danish partnership law include even Greenland. This is considered to be a matter of formality. Bjorn Skolander