Russia Seeks Progress on Arctic Shelf Claim

摘要

Russia's Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi presented on Tuesday his country's application to expand its Arctic shelf borders, believed to harbor billions of barrels of hydrocarbon resources. In his presentation in New York to the UN's commission on the limits of shelf borders, Donskoi said Russia had amassed extensive geological and geophysical data proving the country's rights to the area, which Moscow believes is a continuation of the country's continental shelf.