No Problem In US Decision To Send Warships To Arctic If Int'l Law Complied With - Lavrov

Russia does not see any problem in the US plan to send warships to the Arctic as long as the United States complies with international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th January, 2019) Russia does not see any problem in the US plan to send warships to the Arctic as long as the United States complies with international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday.

"The United States is an Arctic power.

The US, in line with international law, including the international Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982, may, like all other Arctic powers, use sea routes in the region, and non-Arctic powers may also use sea routes in the region," Lavrov said at a press conference.

"If we are talking about the fact that warships of any state want to use the Northern Sea Route, then there are rules for using the Northern Sea Route for this... So the United States is an Arctic power and, if complying with international legal norms, including those of the Russian Federation on the use of the Northern Sea Route... I do not see problems here," he said.