“The ministry believes that the agreement between Oslo and Moscow on the delimitation of maritime spaces and cooperation in the Barents Sea is not subject to discussion,” Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Havardsdatter said in a television interview. types of border treaties are valid indefinitely”.

For his part, Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin instructed the Committee on International Affairs of the House of Representatives to study the issue of suspending the agreement between Russia and Norway.

Communist Party deputy Mikhail Matveev noted that “the State Duma ratified the agreement in 2010,” adding: “We ceded 175,000 square kilometers of the Barents Sea to Norway,” and explained that “the measures are explained. The fact is that the agreement was supposed to have a positive impact on interaction arctic countries.

It is noteworthy that the Northern Sea Route with a length of more than 3000 nautical miles (5556 km), connecting the Barents Sea and the Bering Strait, is the shortest route between Europe and Asia, as well as the shortest sea route between the Far East and the European part of Russia. The route of cargo transportation from the Far East to Europe along the Northern Sea Route is 14,000 km.

Russia is implementing the federal project “Development of the Northern Sea Route”, which includes the construction of infrastructure that will increase cargo traffic to 80 million tons in 2024 and 110 million tons by 2030, in addition to increasing the total throughput of seaports, 110 and 115 million tons, respectively.