Title The Grey Zone Agreement of 1978: Fishery Concerns, Security Challenges and Territorial Interests

• Main Author: Kristoffer Stabrun
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Internet; www.fni.no; Barents Sea
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.612.5238; http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/112916/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/fd73ec69-fcfa-42f3-b16f-77f3a33eb8d3/en/FNI-R1309.pdf

ISBN 978-82-7613-574-9-print version 978-82-7613-575-6-online version Project ISSN 1504-9744 The Norwegian-Soviet Grey Zone Agreement – negotiated in 1977, and ratified and put into practice in 1978 – was a provisional solution that enabled the two countries to solve unanswered questions of jurisdiction and resource access in a disputed area in the Barents Sea. The report inquires into why and how the agreement came about as it did, focusing on the Norwegian position and the decision-making of the Norwegian government. The negotiations were initiated on the basis of the need to safeguard the fisheries, to avoid conflict and unstable conditions in the disputed area, and in order to prevent unwanted territorial consequences in the wake of the establishment of extended economic zones at