Russia Hopes Sanctions Play No Role in Arctic Claim / Sputnik International
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Sergei Donskoi, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, said he hopes that sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West will not have an impact on Russia’s claim for Arctic shelf expansion.
MOSCOW, November 21 (Sputnik) — The Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment said Friday he believes that sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West will not have an impact on the country’s claim to the United Nations to have the area defined as the Arctic shelf expanded.
The Arctic Exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow
“We hope that [the sanctions] will not have an impact on this issue and politics will not prevail here,” Sergei Donskoi said in an interview with Russian Rossiya-24 broadcaster.