The United States intends to deprive Russia of its right to the Northern Sea Route (NSR) which lies in Arctic waters and within Russia’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
That’s according to media reports, saying Washington believes that the NSR should be open to the entire world community, and not only to Russia.
“The current US political elite has “suddenly” forgotten Article 234 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which guarantees Russia the right to the North Sea (because it is in the inland waters of this country), and which also recognizes Canada’s right to passage northwest of this sea route,”’wrote Pecat magazine’s journalist Zoran Milosevic.
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