According to foreign reports , the Russian House of Lords approved a 30 year Russia and Norway signed on the demarcation of their maritime boundary in the Barents Sea and Arctic cooperation treaty. This means that the Russian Parliament formally approved the treaty into force.
reported in September last year , the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to visit Russia , Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the Murmansk met with him . After the two sides signed an agreement to formally address the struggle between the two countries has been four decades of the maritime boundary issue . Russia's decision to split between China and Norway had 17.5 million square kilometers of disputed waters .
the leaders of Russia and Norway signed the maritime delimitation treaty between the two countries after the treaty needs ratification by the parliaments of both countries to take effect . Norway February 8, 2011 completed the ratification process .
Russian State Duma is to vote held earlier in March this year , approved the treaty ,
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reports that the Barents Sea is close to the Scandinavian Arctic waters northeast of a total area of 140 square kilometers. Russia moved its previously disputed between the two countries . This area is rich in fishery resources, coastal shelf is also rich in oil and gas resources , it is estimated that the region can produce billions of barrels of crude oil.
Earlier this month,
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