Russian frontiers of the maritime Arctic

Representatives of the five coastal States bordering on the Arctic Ocean – Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Russian Federation and the United States of America – met at the political level on 28 May 2008 in Ilulissat, Greenland, to hold discussions. Their participants have expressed in the joint declara...

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Main Author: Oreshenkov, Aleksandr
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://library.arcticportal.org/705/
http://library.arcticportal.org/705/1/Microsoft_Word_-_Russian_frontiers_of_the_maritime_Arctic.doc.pdf
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Summary:Representatives of the five coastal States bordering on the Arctic Ocean – Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Russian Federation and the United States of America – met at the political level on 28 May 2008 in Ilulissat, Greenland, to hold discussions. Their participants have expressed in the joint declaration their commitment to the existing international legal framework, in particular, on the delinitation of this part of the globe and no need to develop a new comprehensive international legal regime to govern the Arctic Ocean – the smallest ocean of our planet. en