It is important to make every effort to preserve the Arctic Council as a key international organization for making strategically important decisions on the Arctic, said Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council.
“It is important to make every effort to preserve this organization as a key international platform for making strategically important decisions on the Arctic. In any case, so far no one seems to be denying this directly, including those countries that are trying to restrict us in some way. hold back in this region”, – he said at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on ensuring Russia’s national interests in the Arctic.
He noted that the chairmanship of the Arctic Council that has passed to Russia “gives us the opportunity to promote our own initiatives aimed at protecting our interests in this region and at implementing mutually beneficial cooperation with all interested states”.