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Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Chairman of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Arctic Council Nikolai Korchunov believes that the rejection of oil and gas produced in the Arctic could lead to larger shocks in the global energy market than those currently observed in Europe, a correspondent reports. DOPs.
Obviously, it is necessary to go not along the path of artificial restrictions on oil and gas production, but along the path of ensuring its sustainability, the diplomat stressed.
In addition, he noted that the EU’s Arctic strategy, allegedly under the pretext of environmental protection, enshrined the intention to seek a ban on the extraction of hydrocarbons in the Arctic and adjacent territories and on the purchase of such energy carriers.
