Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that Russia and Norway must coordinate their stances on exploring the Arctic region.
"The development of the region as a whole depends on how we form a coordinated position on exploring the gas fields on the Arctic shelf," Medvedev said at a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in his residence outside Moscow.
"I think this is one of the most important areas of our cooperation," the president was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Stoltenberg, for his part, said the two countries had shared interests in the sphere of natural gas and should work together to boost their market share in Europe.
Disputes over the Arctic sovereignty have been heated up in recent years, reflecting the Arctic countries' intense desire to claim resources in the polar region, which is believed to contain as much as a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas.
Source:Xinhua
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