{"id":31967,"date":"2023-05-11T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=31967"},"modified":"2023-05-11T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:12:53","slug":"norway-takes-over-arctic-council-leadership-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=31967","title":{"rendered":"Norway takes over Arctic Council leadership from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OSLO, May 11- Norway on Thursday took over the chairmanship of the Arctic Council from Russia despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/fears-mount-arctic-cooperation-with-russia-stalls-2023-05-09\/\">a freeze<\/a> in cooperation between the Western Arctic states and Moscow on the regional polar body due to the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norway offered to organise a meeting of the Arctic Council in 2025, the statement said, a significant move because all members participate in meetings, meaning that Russia would also be invited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Acknowledging the conclusion of the Russian Federation&#8217;s second chairmanship &#8230; and accepting Norway&#8217;s offer to chair the Council in 2023-2025, and its offer to host the fourteenth meeting in 2025,&#8221; the members of the council said in the statement, datelined from Salekhard, Siberia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/arctic-council-under-pressure-norway-readies-russian-handoff-2023-03-28\/\">Arctic Council<\/a> was created in 1996 to discuss issues affecting the polar region, ranging from pollution to local economic development to search-and-rescue missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comprises the eight Arctic states of Russia, the United States, Canada, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: OSLO, May 11- Norway on Thursday took over the chairmanship of the Arctic Council from Russia despite a freeze in cooperation between the Western Arctic states and Moscow on the regional polar body due to the invasion of Ukraine. Norway offered to organise a meeting of the Arctic Council in 2025, the statement said, a significant move because all members participate in meetings, meaning that Russia would also be invited. &#8220;Acknowledging the conclusion of the Russian Federation&#8217;s second chairmanship &#8230; and accepting Norway&#8217;s offer to chair the Council in 2023-2025, and its offer to host the fourteenth meeting in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31969,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31967\/revisions\/31969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}