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1 similar Russia Marine Boundary Agreement contracts
THE 2010 NORWAY – RUSSIA MARINE BOUNDARY AGREEMENT AND BILATERAL COOPERATION ON INTEGRATEDRussia Marine Boundary Agreement • August 5th, 2021
On 15 September 2010 the prime ministers of Norway and the Russian Federation met in Murmansk and signed an “Agreement between the Kingdom of Norway and the Russian Federation on Delimitation and Cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Polar Ocean” (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2010).1 More than three decades in the making, the agreement draws a boundary between the two countries in the Barents Sea, continues cooperation in fisheries, and lays the framework for cooperation on petroleum deposits straddling the boundary (Henriksen and Ulfstein, 2010). The agreement entered into force in July 2011. Its significance goes well beyond the Barents Sea, as it demonstrated the capability of Arctic countries to resolve issues in a peaceful manner on the basis of international law (Hoel, 2010). The agreement settles the most important outstanding foreign policy issues between the two countries and opens up new opportunities for cooperation, which is likely to have important repercussions also at t
