Today, the Barents Sea agreement between Norway and Russia will be ratified in Stortinget, the Norwegian Parliament. It was in October last year that the delimitation deal for the Barents Sea was signed by the Norwegian and Russian Foreign Ministers in Murmansk, after decades of disagreeing on this border.
Norwegian minister of foreign affairs Jonas Gahr Støre said this on the matter to his Facebook friends yesterday:
“Historical day in Stortinget tomorrow, as the delimitation agreement with Russia in The Barents Sea and the Polar Sea is being processed with unanimous recommendations from the Foreign affairs and Defense comittees.”
Hornorkesteret congratulates both countries with a piece of the arctic!
Russia was originally set to ratify the agreement at the same time as Norway, but the processing of the agreement is still not scheduled in the Russian State Duma.
Read more here, at Barents Observer.
Look at an interactive map of the agreement as of april 2010 here, at Dagbladet.
Jonas Qvale
Hornorkesteret 
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