On 21 November 2005, the Northern Dimension ministerial meeting held in Brussels approved by unanimity "The Guidelines for the Development of a Political Declaration and Policy Framework Document for Northern Dimension Policy" from 2007. These guidelines were the agreed basis to draft in 2006 new basic Northern Dimension documents that opened for a new phase of this policy. For example, the parties agreed that the Northern Dimension is a shared policy and that it will be the regional expression in the North of Europe of the EU / Russia Common Spaces although keeping its own specificities i.e. full membership of Norway and Iceland, special concern about environment and health issues, protection of indigenous peoples, etc. ("Joint Press Release on the IV Northern Dimension Ministerial Meeting"). The political declaration and the policy framework document became a stable basis for the Northern Dimension as from 2007.