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Do we need a global leader? Arctic Meltdown From Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008 Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year. But there are currently no clear rules governing this economically and strategically vital region. Unless Washington leads the way toward a multilateral diplomatic solution, the Arctic could descend into armed conflict. SCOTT G. BORGERSON is International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard.
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‘Svalbard issue’: the struggle goes on
Pavel Prokhorov‘Expert North-West’ Business Journal
St. Petersburg
Disputes in the Arctic
Do we need a global leader?
Arctic Meltdown
From Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008
Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year. But there are currently no clear rules governing this economically and strategically vital region. Unless Washington leads the way toward a multilateral diplomatic solution, the Arctic could descend into armed conflict.
SCOTT G. BORGERSON is International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard.
European Commission – new Arctic policy
Climate change may spark conflict with Russia
Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy supremo, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the commissioner for external relations, call on the EU to draw up an Arctic policy "based on the evolving geostrategy of the ... region, taking into account access to resources and the opening of new trade routes".
Five Arctic states onlyWe therefore see no need to develop a new comprehensive international legal regime to govern the Arctic Ocean.
THE ILULISSAT DECLARATION ARCTIC OCEAN CONFERENCE
ILULISSAT, GREENLAND, 27 – 29 MAY 2008
More than just a line?
Why did Russia want an agreement now?
• Settle dispute with Norway before new submission to Commission.– But settlement with Canada and Denmark more
important• A good example of a peaceful solution of a
potential conflict.• Russia has not got any clear position on 200
mile zone around Svalbard.
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Status of Svalbard’s 200 mile zone
1977 – creation of a ‘Fishery Protection Zone’Kjetil Skogrand: “Something less than EEZ”.
No recognition of the status by Spitsbergen Treaty parties.
The judge of court on the trawler ‘Electron’.
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МП, прилегающие к Шпицбергену, подпадают под действие положений Парижского договора, в частности, его статьи 3, которая предусматривает, что Шпицберген будет открыт на условиях равенства для всех участников Парижского договора, и статьи 8, которая, между прочим, устанавливает налоговый режим, применяемый при разработке минеральных ресурсов Шпицбергена.
Anglo-Saxon fightback
Will Norway break off with the last rudiment of The Versailles Treaty?
Thank you for your attention!
