July 5, 2022 at 12:15 Asks the Foreign Affairs Committee to consider terminating the dividing line agreement with Norway It reports VG, which quotes the Russian news agency RIA. It is the president of the Russian National Assembly, Vyacheslav Volodin, who asks the Foreign Affairs Committee to consider that Russia should terminate the dividing line agreement with Norway and the agreement on fisheries cooperation in the Barents Sea. The reason is that Norway has refused transport via Norwegian territory on Svalbard. news has been in contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is investigating the matter further. The area makes up 12 percent of the Barents Sea. The 176,000 square kilometers cover an area corresponding to Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands combined. The agreement was signed in 2010, and it took 40 years to get it in place.
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