8 May 2010

norway’s balancing act

Coming after the agreement over the Barents Sea and this week’s announcment of naval joint-exercises between Russia and Norway, which will test inter-operability in various scenarios such as emergency and rescue, armed attack on instillations, Norway is now focussing its Arctic diplomacy on the Arctic Council.  The report in иносми is actually a translation of a Canadian article... Read More...

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27 February 2010

search and rescue

According to portnews the Arctic Council will institute a common framework for search and rescue operations, so claims State Secretary, Deputy Transport Minister Sergei Aristov in the opening speech of the first meeting of the Task Force of the Arctic Council.  According to the report, it is the view of the Minister that ’ the creation of a unified regional Arctic search and... Read More...

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