India started receiving more crude oil produced in the Arctic region after the EU, G7 nations and Australia introduced a price cap on Russian oil in December 2022.
As part of its current Arctic Council chairmanship, Russia works hard to promote the Northern Sea Route, protect the environment and maintain sustainable development in the region, China’s Consul General in Vladivostok, Piao Yangfan, said following the Bering Strait International Festival in Chukotka.
Nikolai Korchunov, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry and Chair of the Arctic Council’s Senior Arctic Officials, had a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister of India Sanjay Verma to discuss the prospects for promoting cooperation between the two countries in the Arctic region as part of foreign ministry consultations on the Arctic.
A roundtable of the Arctic Sessions project ‘The Arctic Council: Scenarios for the Future of the International Platform’ focused on the search for mutually beneficial forms of cooperation in the Arctic as well as ways to strengthen mutual trust and security in the region.
Russia supports the creation of an international partnership in the Arctic with the participation of non-Arctic states.
Specialists studying the Arctic and Antarctic will start working together with experts in computational mathematics. The parties made an agreement at a seminar on modern methods and technologies for numerical modeling of oceanic processes.
