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Petersburg State University spoke in favor of international efforts’ unification in exploring of the Arctic region. The activities of the Arctic Council continued the good tradition, based on the experience of pioneering researchers,” – said the dean of the SPbU Institute of Earth Sciences, Kirill Chistyakov. “The extreme conditions of the Arctic throughout its history required coordinated international efforts.
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The objective of the conference was to determine the outlines of the institutional development of the Arctic Council, the prospects for legal regulation of activities in the Arctic, as well as the potential of economic projects in the region and of cooperation with such non-regional players as China, India, Japan and Singapore. The conference was attended by experts of History, Politics, Asian Studies, Geology, Ecology, Oceanography and others, as well as heads of ministries and agencies, diplomats and representatives of Business.