Canada and Russia consider the NWP and the NSR to be their internal waters, while the U.S. objects
In the spring of 2018, the Russian media reacted extremely sharply and painfully to the latest statement made by Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard Admiral P. Zukunft which, on the ...
... are part of the Canadian NWP and the Russian NEP. The U.S. position on the issue is well known: it challenges the claims of Russia and Canada to establish straight baselines and spread the status of historical internal waters to areas through which NWP and NEP lanes pass. The Americans consider the straits of the Canadian Arctic archipelago and part of the Russian Arctic straits (Lapteva and Sannikova, New Siberian Islands) to be international waters and insist that the right of transit passage applies ...