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We regard as very negative the rejection of the proposed amendments to this resolution which underlined ‘the risks involved in any use of the Arctic for strategic or military purposes, and the need to make the Arctic Ocean a demilitarised and nuclear-free zone’ and which indicated that we remain ‘particularly concerned over the ongoing race for natural resources in the Arctic, which may lead to security threats … and overall international instability’.
As a result, despite containing some points that we regard as positive, the resolution allows the prospect of an ongoing race for natural resources in that continent, particularly where it states that the High North ‘forms part of the EU’s Northern Dimension policy’ and where it states that it ‘is convinced that awareness of the Arctic’s importance in a global context needs to be raised further by delivering a standalone EU Arctic policy’.
It also calls on the Commission ‘to include energy and security policy in the Arctic region on its agenda’ and ‘to take a proactive role in the Arctic by at least, as a first step, taking up “observer status” on the Arctic Council’."@en1
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