Mrs. Sara French at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On November 29th, 2012. See this statement in context.

November 29th, 2012 / 9:55 a.m.

Program Director, Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Program, Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation

The dispute between RAIPON and the Russian government is over the extraction of resources in RAIPON 's traditional territory. There's a great deal of diversity in the economic development of the Arctic. Russia receives about 60% of its GNP from its Arctic territories. Russia has a huge stake in seeing that continue. Russia has much more infrastructure and development, so this may be an area in which we have an opportunity for mutual learning.

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