Russia and Norway can not share the sea

The history of relations between Russian and Norwegian fishermen already known for quite some time. Since both parties share a fairly attractive piece of sea (from the viewpoint of a good catch), it is not rare a variety of conflicts, which then result in mutual negative accusations, and distrust. One of the recent cases vividly illustrate the current state of Affairs is the process of detention of the Norwegian boats protection of water space of Russian fishing vessels, which were lost many valuable catch, however, now we are not talking about this incident.

Both Russia and Norway are entitled to fish in the archipelago of Svalbard, however, no clear boundaries, which would be shared by the fishermen of each country does not exist, therefore, the case when the competing ships were in their waters — not rare. To resolve this question, often gather a variety of commissions and congresses, and on one of such events, recently expressed a clear position of Russia on this issue. Sergey Lavrov said that the main reference should be the Treaty of Paris almost 100 years ago, because no other document that would clearly painted by the authority of the countries in this matter, no.