The President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the head of Finland Sauli Niinist? in the course of a telephone conversation discussed the Russian-Finnish cooperation and partnership in the Arctic, said the press service of the Kremlin. in the context of Russian-Finnish cooperation, the leaders of the 2 countries have paid attention to issues such As the relationship between Russia and the EU, as well as partnership in the Arctic, reported on the Internet representation of the Kremlin.
"They exchanged views On the situation in Ukraine with emphasis on the necessity of implementing measures adopted in Minsk on 12 February of the current year. The importance of the work of the special monitoring mission of the OSCE, which was composed and among them, the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and Finland. Reviewed plans of bilateral contacts at various levels.", - underlines a press-service. Remember, in the early winter of last year, Vice-Premier of Russia Dmitry Rogozin said that for the Arctic, "unfolds a serious battle, but it until not beyond the powers of the virtual, although" the players are very serious ". About the upcoming creation of a group of forces to protect Russia's national interests in the Arctic was announced by the head of the Ministry of defense General of the army Sergei Shoigu. He ordered the General staff to create a project of deployment of the army in the Arctic. As you know, the international legal status of the Arctic is now a matter of dispute, mainly between the US, Canada, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. In the 1-St of all, the story is About the ownership of underwater Lomonosov and Mendeleyev ridges, where, on the final research, can contain about 12% of all world reserves of black gold.
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