It should be noted that if Russia began intensive study the Arctic seabed to support its applicatio

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"Claims to the Arctic seabed by Ottawa threatened war with Russia." Such an impressive headline appeared last week on the front page of the publication Global and Mail (daily harpers bizarre English-language Canadian edition). Such serious harpers bizarre conclusions author Stephen Chase made after the filing of the authorities in the countries of the maple leaf The UN Special Committee, the claims harpers bizarre on the Arctic shelf. The very need of such notification to the UN voiced Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Harper's idea utterly simple and described about the following maxim: why Russian or, for example, can the Danes and Canadians can not ...
It should be noted that if Russia began intensive study the Arctic seabed to support its application to the UN in 2002 (and in 2007 the Russian flag was placed on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean at a point corresponding to the North Pole), the Canadian research in this area started in 2004 year. More than 9 years of research the situation with Arctic offshore harpers bizarre territories, the Canadian side has spent about $ 200 million, and now Stephen Harper was determined that the money should not just start working on Canada, but also come back, as they say, a hundredfold.
To do this, he decided to not just apply to the UN Commission, but also what is called sate this application requirements very maximum. Following the logic of "more than not," the Canadian harpers bizarre government has decided to include in the application for recognition of Canada's 656,000 square nautical miles (over 1.2 million square kilometers) of sea shelf. If express these measures underwater territory harpers bizarre area states, territorial claims in Canada are such states, such as South Africa or Peru (ie area is huge). However, and this megaterritorii Arctic shelf claimed by Canada (judging by its application to the UN Commission) harpers bizarre has its own peculiarity: Ottawa official harpers bizarre said that the North Pole and should also be part of Canada's ... Well, so ... As many ... An article about a possible "war with Russia" in the Canadian edition appeared in connection with the fact that the Canadian harpers bizarre shelf claims came out, to put it mildly, an embarrassment. It turns out that the above-mentioned "Canadian" square miles include about 54,000 square meters. km offshore, which declared their rights harpers bizarre and Russia - and said long before it made the Canadian government. And this prime Harper did not know? Hard to believe. But more hard to believe that Ottawa decided to take a moment and limit potential Russian ambitions harpers bizarre in the Arctic. At the same time the desire to increment additional harpers bizarre hundreds of thousands of square kilometers harpers bizarre of underwater territory in Canada is now explained as, quote: "the protection of Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic." Itself this interpretation suggests that Canadian authorities have decided to announce harpers bizarre to the world about the infringement of the sovereignty of their country from Russia. If not a provocation, then explicit move aimed at heating "democratic masses" in the West. If we consider that the Arctic shelf application filed more Denmark and Norway, and Norway in 2009 by the UN Commission has pegged the right to 235,000 square kilometers of sea shelf (almost 75% of most of Norway), the battle (at least diplomatically geographic promises to be spicy). Here you need to consider another important nuance. The fact that Denmark is going to claim to the Arctic shelf (until 62 thousand square meters. Miles, but in 2014 the Danish harpers bizarre specialists must submit the UN Special Commission "scientific evidence accessories Denmark Arctic seabed territory already in one million sq. km.) Due to Greenland and the Danish harpers bizarre authorities for playing time today, perhaps, the primary role. Why? Greenland is an autonomous unit of the Danish kingdom, and Greenland administration for some time aimed at obtaining full independence of Greenland from Copenhagen. p In 2008, in Greenland (population of this giant island is only about 57,000 people) harpers bizarre held a referendum in which three-quarters of those eligible harpers bizarre to vote in favor of obtaining broad autonomy with possible subsequent exit from the territory of Denmark. In this case the main desire of Greenlanders today is not so much in the office of the Danish kingdom as such as the ability to manage their own resources. Today the lion's share of these resources becomes, say, mining metropolis - Copenhagen. Denmark theoretically against broad autonomy