The Barents Watch is to integrate different Norwegian systems on surveillance and early warning, a press release from the Norwegian government reads. A pre-project on the system was this month handed over by research institute SINTEF to the Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, while a decision on the very project is to be taken in March or April, government press release reads.
The Norwegian government now wants the country’s four Nordic neighbors to join the project. In his report on joint Nordic Defence and Foreign Policy Cooperation presented early this month, former foreign and defence minister Thorvald Stoltenberg proposed joint Nordic solutions for surveillance both in the Barents and Baltic Sea.
The Stoltenberg report also proposes the development of joint satellite systems adjusted the BarentsWatch and BalticWatch.
