Our role is really to support the chairship and ensure that the Arctic Council is seen to be as active and vibrant as possible as part of the Arctic foreign policy.
We make it clear that there can be no business as usual with Russia. Certainly with what's happening with airspace violations, etc., there is no prospect of meetings at the senior Arctic official or political level at the Arctic Council, but the working groups, which are the pistons of the Arctic Council and technical in nature, scientific, are meeting virtually with all eight participating as they might. That's important to keep the science moving forward.
