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Moscow-Russia's Speaker of the House urged senior lawmakers on Tuesday to consider abolishing the treaty establishing a maritime border with NATO member Norway.
The treaty, signed in 2010, aims to end the conflict between Russia and Norway in the Barents Sea, which is part of the Arctic Ocean adjacent to the north coast of Norway and Russia. did.
In response to Parliamentary comments accusing Norway of blocking food delivery to Russian settlements in the Svalbard Islands, Speaker of the House Vyacheslav Volodin should consider the "blame" of the treaty. I asked the chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives. ..
"Let's investigate this issue with Leonid Eduardovich Sultsky and then let his agent know," he said.
The Svarbar Islands, located between Norway's north coast and the Arctic, are part of Norway, but Russia reserves the right to use natural resources under the 1920 Treaty and its residence. Most of the land is inhabited by Russians.
Norway denies blocking access to Svalbard and only applies international sanctions in response to Moscow's military operations in Ukraine, reconciling Russia Claims that there are other ways to provide. (Report by Reuters, edited by Kevin Riffy and Gareth Jones)
