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You can follow the meeting from 9 am Norwegian time Tuesday 29 October.

TROMSØ: Foreign Ministers Børge Brende and Carl Bildt want to question anti-gay law and human rights when meeting for the Barents Council on Tuesday. But the Russian Foreign Minister is not coming.

When the Kirkenes Declaration was signed in 1993, it marked the establishment of a new type of international relations that had been impossible during the Cold War, says Professor Oleg Andreev.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Barents Euro-Arctic Cooperation and the upcoming Barents Summit, we here present 20 different views on the success behind and the future of the Barents Region.

Last time Dmitri Medvedev visited Norway, he agreed with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg that measures will be taken to reduce the emissi

EU’s Economic and Social Committee recommends in its Arctic Policy opinion that key civil society partners should be given a stronger advisory role in the Barents Euro-Arctic Council.

Lessons learned and priorities for the future are up for discussion when the 20-years anniversary of the Barents cooperation will be marked in Murmansk this week.

Meeting in St. Petersburg, the two Prime Ministers agree to encourage business cooperation in the new Kirkenes-declaration to be signed at the Barents top-meeting in June.

MURMANSK: Regional Duma member Pavel Sazhinov believes a permanent participation from parliamentarians will counter the reduced interest for Barents Regional Council.

The next Kirkenes declaration should focus more on economic development in the Barents Region, Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says.

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