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End full cooperation between Russia and other members of the Arctic Council (Denmark, Iceland, Canada, Norway, USA, Finland and Sweden) complicates the organization's work. This statement was made by the chairman of the Norwegian Arctic Council's Committee of Senior Officials, Morten Höglund.
In an interview with Kommersant, Höglund emphasized that normal functioning must be restored in the Arctic Council in the near future in light of the relevance and importance of its tasks.
As the expert pointed out, “if we lose the Arctic Council, it will be very difficult to restore it.”
Earlier, the Grand Ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Nikolai Korchunov noted that the negative rhetoric regarding the development of the Russian presence in the Arctic the region has subsided because there is an understanding that it is very difficult to develop multilateral relations without Russia. cooperation.
He also emphasized that the continued expansion of NATO in the Arctic region is obvious: the scale of the alliance's military exercises, in which its non-Arctic member countries are actively involved, is growing.