mr president the antarctic treaty serves as a shining global example that territorial claims by littoral states can be set aside in the interests of peaceful cooperation and scientific research
as the world confronts the issue of global warming impacting on the melting of the two caps and causing rising sea levels and as frozen arctic maritime passages re-open to navigation it is important that an analogous arrangement be found for the frozen or should i say thawing north of the arctic
the scramble for sovereign claims and arctic mineral resources as evidenced by the melodramatic planting of the russian flag on the sea bed must be rejected
the eu should try and convince the five arctic littoral states the united states canada russia norway and denmark of the wisdom of such an approach
