Analysis : Fears mount for the Arctic as cooperation with Russia stalls

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    Analysis: Fears mount for the Arctic as cooperation with Russia stalls | Reuters
    ▻https://www.reuters.com/world/fears-mount-arctic-cooperation-with-russia-stalls-2023-05-09

    Now, a year after council members stopped working with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine and as Norway prepares to assume the chairmanship from Moscow on May 11, experts are asking whether the polar body’s viability is at risk if it cannot cooperate with the country that controls over half of the Arctic coastline.

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    Recently, [Russia] has taken steps to expand cooperation in the Arctic with non-Arctic states. On April 24, Russia and China signed a memorandum establishing cooperation between the countries’ coast guards in the Arctic.

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      Now, a year after council members stopped working with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine and as Norway prepares to assume the chairmanship from Moscow on May 11, experts are asking whether the polar body’s viability is at risk if it cannot cooperate with the country that controls over half of the Arctic coastline.
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      The work of the council, which comprises the eight Arctic states of Finland, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Canada and the United States, in the past has produced binding agreements on environmental protection and preservation.

      It is also a rare platform giving a voice to the region’s Indigenous peoples. It does not deal with security issues.
      […]
      Days earlier, on April 14, Russia invited China, India, Brazil and South Africa - the BRICS - to conduct research at its settlement on Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago under Norwegian sovereignty where other countries can operate under a 1920 Treaty.

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