Wouldn't the priority then be to set international agreements on shipping, on the types of vessels that are transiting the Arctic? Those international agreements would apply to international waters. If we focus on our internal waters as the prime object area for shipping, then we're talking about something different from setting up large international agreements with countries such as China, or Singapore, which has a large merchant vessel fleet, and all the countries of the world that might be interested in shipping through the Arctic.
Isn't the first priority to get the big agreement rather than the little agreement?