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Russia to UN: We are claiming 463,000 square miles of the Arctic
2015-08-05
MOSCOW (AaayPeee) -- Russia has submitted its bid for vast territories in the Arctic to the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

The ministry said in a statement that Russia is claiming 1.2 million square kilometers (over 463,000 square miles) of Artic sea shelf extending more than 350 nautical miles (about 650 kilometers) from the shore.

Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark and Norway have all been trying to assert jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic, which is believed to hold up to a quarter of the planet's undiscovered oil and gas. Rivalry for Arctic resources has intensified as shrinking polar ice is opening up new opportunities for exploration.
Assuming claims of global warming are true, of course.
Russia was the first to submit its claim in 2002, but the U.N. sent it back for lack of evidence.

The ministry said that the resubmitted bid contains new arguments. "Ample scientific data collected in years of Arctic research are used to back the Russian claim," it said.

Russia expects the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to start looking at its bid in the fall, the ministry said.
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Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#3  Lest we fergit, Darth Vlad repor angrily threatened both Turkey = Erdogan, + the KSA + any aligned, for their alleged support of the ISIS/ISIS.

Can't really blame Vlad - RUSSNAV MISSLES DON'T LAUNCH WHILE RUSS WARSHIPS RUST AWAY PIERSIDE OR CATCH FIRE, WHILE RUSSIAN AIR FARCE TACAIR + HELOS ARE ROUTINELY FALLING OUT OF THE SKY DUE TO POOR MAINTENANCE. VLAD STILL HAS THE RUSSIAN ARMY BUT AS POTEN AFFECTED BY THE HIGH BIRTH RATE OF RUSSIA'S MUSLIMS OVER COMING YEARS.

IOW, Russia's time window for preventing direct andor indirect Muslim takeover of the country may be more limited than we in the West think, + VLAD KNOWS IT!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-08-05 21:34  

#2  This is the price of a supine response to Chinese belligerence in the South China Sea.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2015-08-05 12:14  

#1  Is this and this also part of the price paid for Putin's permission to surrender to Iran?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-08-05 01:20  

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