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Special Ambassador On Nikolai Korchunov, chairman of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Arctic Council, said on instructions from the Russian Foreign Ministry that the Arctic region was becoming an international venue for military operations. He said international military activity was growing in high latitudes. All this, as Korčunov emphasized, is a very worrying trend. He can only worry Moscow, he said. to maintain peace and stability in the Arctic. However, a possible accession to NATO “will probably not help to achieve this goal.”
Earlier, Korchunov said that the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO would properly regulate the development of cooperation in the Arctic. He added that a change in the military-political status of these countries was likely to lead to some adjustments in high-latitude cooperation.
Sweden and Finland had previously sent NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg requests to join the alliance. . At the same time, Turkey has promised to block the Nordic countries' requests if they do not agree with its position on security issues. We are talking in particular about the Kurdish opposition who have settled in these countries. As a result, Ankara has stressed that it cannot allow states with terrorist representatives to join NATO.