Nora222

The other day Denmark laid its claims to "three areas around Greenland, including an area north of Greenland which among other areas covers the North Pole" (http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-denmark-north-pole.html). Surely, these claims, which would be finally made by Danish government in 2014, can put Denmark on a collision course with other countries bordering the Arctic, such as Russia and Canada, because they can also pretend to the extension of 200 mile economic zone in Arctic waters in accordance with the UN Law of the Sea Convention. The matter is that our underwater continental margin protrudes outside these 200 nautical miles. But while our countries will try to cut the hair on this question, not only Arctic coastal states will actively start to share the Arctic region, because it is the largest oil and natural gas storage of humanity. Such countries as China, India, Japan, Germany and some other European states won’t wait till 2014-2020 or prove their rights to the Arctic shelf at all. Thus, countries bordering the Arctic should accelerate the pace of Arctic’s splitting; otherwise we’ll come to nothing!