Assertion: secretariat's role | /r/HasProperty | to facilitate contribution
Facets:
value: from the permanent participants
type: OTHER
value: since commencing business
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Since commencing business in 1994, the role of the secretariat has been to facilitate contributions from the Permanent Participants to the cooperation of the eight Arctic states and to assist the Permanent Participants in performing, mainly communicational task.