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Ine Marie Søreide Eriksen ble intervjuet om resultatene av Reykjavik møtet - Defence News
Sorry Søreide Eriksen, den beroligende tonen din forteller ikke sannheten er jeg redd. Norge har gjennom sin baseepolitikk vært nødt til å spille med sordin i dette orkesteret. Flytting av 333 skv til Evenes har svekket avdelingen alvorlig og USA har vært nødt til å overta overvåkingen av havområdene i nord, på- og under havoverflaten i større grad enn tidligere. Alt tyder på at russerne leder an i dette særdeles alvorlige spillet. Lavrov, med sin sonore røst, er tøffere enn de fleste og en gammel rev oppi dette. Kina, ja de lurer i kulissene og vil gjerne inn i rådet. Sjekk innmaten i russernes base på Franz Josefs Land i denne videoen fra BBC: https://tinyurl.com/7c76rnx5 (Red.)
US, Russia at
odds over military activity in the Arctic
REYKJAVIK.
Iceland — The Biden administration is leading a campaign against Russian
attempts to assert authority over Arctic shipping and reintroduce a military dimension to discussions over international activity in the area. As Russia assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Arctic Council on Thursday, the U.S. rallied other members to oppose Moscow’s plans to set maritime rules in the Northern Sea
Route, which runs from Norway to Alaska, and its desire to resume high-level
military talks within the eight-nation bloc. Those talks were suspended in 2014
over Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
The effort reflects growing concerns in Washington and among some NATO
allies about a surge in Russian military and commercial activity in the region
that is rapidly opening up due to the effects of climate change. Russia has expressed
similar suspicion about NATO’s motives.
At a meeting of Arctic Council foreign ministers in Reykjavik,
the capital of Iceland, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the group
should maintain its focus on peaceful cooperation on environmental issues,
maritime safety and the well-being of indigenous people in the region.
“The Arctic is a region for strategic competition that has seized the
world’s attention,” Blinken said. “But the Arctic is more than a strategically
or economically significant region. It’s home to our people, its hallmark has
been and must remain peaceful cooperation. It’s our responsibility to protect
that peaceful cooperation and to build on it.”
Blinken stressed the importance of upholding “effective governance and the rule
of law” to ensure that the “Arctic remains a region free of conflict where
countries act responsibly.” He had previously questioned the legality of the
proposed Russian maritime rules and expressed deep reservations about Russia’s military activity in the far North.
“It is therefore important to extend the positive relations we have within the
Arctic Council to encompass the military sphere as well, first of all by
revitalizing multilateral dialogue on military issues between the general
staffs of the Arctic states,” Lavrov said.
He said later at a new conference that resuming that dialogue would be a
priority for Russia while it heads the council.
“We have not received any ‘no’s’ so far but we have not received any
positive reaction, either,” Lavrov said. “So we have decided that within the
next three years we will create the proper conditions so that this particular
aspect of common security will once again be part of the work of the Arctic
Council.”
The outgoing council chair, Foreign Minister Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson,
of Iceland, did not appear enthusiastic. “Everything that we can do as nations
to lower tension and see stability is something that, of course, should be
looked into very positively, but I think it’s important to keep the council as
it is,” he said.
Lavrov also cast aspersions on NATO and the U.S., which he accused of acting
with arrogance toward Russia and its security concerns. He took particular aim
at Norway, which he said was amending its laws on foreign military presence to
allow for the constant rotation of military equipment and personnel.
“We’re especially concerned about what is going on close to our borders
and Norway is indeed a very close neighbor of ours,” he said. “We have very
good relations with Norway. Nevertheless, the issues related to heightened
military tensions due to military deployments in Norway and in
the Baltics are still very
present.”
Adm. Alexander Moiseyev, the commander of Russia’s
Northern Fleet, said that NATO navy ships’ presence in the Barents Sea and the
Norwegian Sea have reached levels unseen since World War II.
Associated Press
He called the rotational presence a “play on words” to
describe what is actually a permanent presence. “This is not the first
demonstration of this highbrow approach that our Western colleagues are now
taking in the international arena,” he said. “We are going to undertake
necessary measures in order to ensure our security, but our priority and our
preference really is dialogue.”
Lavrov also proposed a summit of Arctic Council leaders to be held at
some point during Russia’s two-year chairmanship and said Moscow is keen to
foster cooperation.
“We encourage you to maintain and seek consensus in the council to continue
constructive cooperation,” Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde told Lavrov.
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