Putin discussed with the Security Council the issue of the border of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council. The meeting discussed the internal agenda and the issue of the outer border of the Russian continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean, said press office Kremlin.

To discuss the internal agenda, Tatyana Golikova, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy, was invited to the meeting. Also at the meeting, in addition to the permanent members of the Security Council, was the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov. The press service did not provide other details of the meeting.

December 3 Ministry of Defense and FSB developed plan to counter provocations on the Northern Sea Route. As the Military Thought magazine of the Ministry of Defense wrote, the department does not exclude provocations, given the incompleteness of the legal registration of the rights of the Arctic countries to the Arctic shelf resources, as well as statements by non-regional states about the need to use Arctic resources by the whole world.

Erdni Kagaltynov