Working Paper No. 75 / 2023
Working Paper No. 75 / 2023
This Working Paper analyses the March 3 and June 8, 2022, Joint Statements made by the seven Western Arctic Council member states in the current political and legal context of environmental and economic management in the northern polar region. Taking existing academic publications on the status of the Arctic Council, the authors examine various options ...
... infrastructural, linguistic and cultural, and governance structures, for each of the territories within national jurisdiction, is diverse. Only a small portion of the central Arctic Ocean lies completely beyond national jurisdictions and is mainly governed by international law of the sea. The governance of the Arctic consists of a blend of national, regional, transnational, and international regulatory and policy frameworks because of its complex political and geophysical settings.
As a result, approaches to determining the status of the Arctic are diverse....
... as part of a joint project of Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the
Royal United Services Institute, RUSI
“Russian-British Security Dialogue”.
The seminar was attended by leading Russian and British experts on maritime security, international law, the Arctic, transport and logistics. The participants discussed the existing and potential security challenges and threats in the Arctic, the issues of interaction between the two countries in ensuring freedom of navigation and the legal status of the region,...
... forces, and ensuring a naval presence in key strategic regions is one of the U.S. priority policies in the World Ocean. The U.S. strategy on the Arctic notes that it prioritizes preserving all the rights, freedoms, and types of maritime use stipulated in international law in the region. Such wording is present in the Arctic strategies of the U.S. Department of Defence, Navy, and the U.S. Coast Guard.
In order to implement this policy, the U.S. launched the Freedom of Navigation (FON) programme in 1979. The programme is implemented in three ways:
by holding bilateral ...
On October 11, 2018, RIAC held a discussion focusing on integrated management of marine spaces in the Arctic Ocean beyond national jurisdictions. The meeting started with the presentation of a draft report on this issue moderated by Andrey Zagorsky, RIAC Member, Director of IMEMO RAS Department of Disarmament and Conflict Resolution, following the discussions ...
... freedom of navigation to the 200-mile EEZ, and ensuring compliance with the conventional right of transit passage in Russia’s Arctic straits. However, the United States is not a party to the 1982 Convention, which
de facto
undercuts the statements coming ... ... provisions, and the United States would successfully use the advantages derived from this.
However, at the level of the doctrine of international law, there is another point of view which holds that many provisions of the 1982 Convention still cannot be considered ...