Although Arctic issues and those of the...
development of natural resources, including the Arctic shelf, environmental protection issues and expanding the region"s transportation infrastructure.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had to explain that the Arctic summit did not infringe upon the Arctic Council, a high-level inter-governmental forum addressing issues faced by the Arctic governments and the indigenous people of the Arctic.
Established in 1996 at the initiative of Finland, the Arctic Council is considered the main regional organization comprising Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Canada, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. In reality, the Council is even larger because the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, China, Italy and South Korea have already received observer status with it.
Washington did not rebuke Ottawa and defend the uninvited parties for nothing. The United States and Canada have long been wrangling over large sectors of the Beaufort Sea.
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