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Thursday July 26, 2007

July 26, 2007 by Graeme MacKay
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Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday July 26, 2007

Russia deploys mission to claim North Pole

A Russian expedition sailed yesterday for the North Pole, where it plans to send a submarine crew to plant a flag on the seabed and symbolically claim the Arctic for the Kremlin.

The mission is part of a race to assert rights over the Arctic, an icy wasteland that is rich in energy reserves and, as climate change melts the ice, could open up to form a lucrative shortcut for ships sailing between Asia and North America.

“The Arctic is Russian,” expedition leader and parliamentary deputy Artur Chilingarov told Russian TV. “We are going to be the first to put a flag there, a Russian flag, at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, at the very point of the North Pole.”

One of their biggest worries is resurfacing at the same hole in the ice they dived into — missing it could mean becoming trapped as the mini-submarine is not powerful enough to break through the ice.

International law states the five countries with territory inside the Arctic Circle — Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway and Denmark, via its control of Greenland — are limited to a 320-kilometre economic zone around their coastline. (Source: Ottawa Citizen) 

 

Posted in: Canada, International Tagged: 2007, Canada, christmas, deer, diplomacy, Editorial Cartoon, North Pole, oil, Russia, Santa Claus
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