Transcript
Round 1 — Opening Plenary
United Statesopening-statement
The United States comes to Trondheim committed to a stable, rules-based, and secure Arctic. Let me be direct. The Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route are international straits. Freedom of navigation and transit passage through them are guaranteed under customary international law, and no state may condition, notify, or gatekeep the lawful passage of vessels. Although the United States is not yet party to UNCLOS, we honor its navigational and maritime-zone provisions and expect the same of others. We are equally clear-eyed about security. Growing militarization and the deepening Sino-Russian partnership in this region concern us, and we will defend our homeland, our Alaskan sovereignty, and our allies accordingly. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our NATO and NORAD partners, Canada, Denmark and Greenland, Norway, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic remains a region for Arctic states. On environment, science, fisheries, and search-and-rescue, America is ready to lead cooperatively.
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Russiaopening-statement
The Russian Federation welcomes this dialogue in the spirit of an Arctic that must remain a zone of peace. More than half of the Arctic coastline is Russian, and with that geography comes responsibility. The Northern Sea Route lies within our territorial waters; under UNCLOS Article 234 Russia regulates transit lawfully, and our decades of icebreaker investment justify orderly, cost-based passage. We reject any recharacterization of the NSR as an 'international strait.' Our Arctic 2035 program will expand hydrocarbon, mineral, and shipping development within Russian jurisdiction. Our military presence is defensive and no different in kind from NATO or NORAD activity; foreign buildup, not ours, raises the risk of conflict. We note with concern the selective invocation of UNCLOS by a non-party, and the use of sanctions that harm cooperation and the environment alike. Russia honors its treaties, values environmental partnership with our neighbors, and is prepared to deepen cooperation with China and to deal directly with European Arctic states.
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Canadaopening-statement
Canada comes to Trondheim to restore what this region has lost: a functioning, rules-based Arctic order anchored in UNCLOS and the Arctic Council. Let me be plain on three points. First, sovereignty: the waters of our Archipelago, including the Northwest Passage, are Canadian internal waters. That status does not change if the ice retreats, and Canada will continue to regulate all transit responsibly and safely. Second, stewardship: our North is warming three to four times faster than the planet. We will lead on environmental protection zones, the high-seas fisheries moratorium, and search-and-rescue capacity. Third, people: no Arctic decision is legitimate without meaningful Inuit and Sami inclusion. On militarization, escalation serves no one; we favour transparency, notification, and dialogue. Canada does not seek a new legal architecture, we already have one, we seek to strengthen it. We extend our hand to Arctic Council partners and stand ready to help bridge divides where others will not talk.
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Chinaopening-statement
Distinguished Special Representative, esteemed colleagues. China comes to Trondheim as a near-Arctic state and a responsible stakeholder in a region whose fate now shapes the shared future of all mankind. The Arctic's transformation is no longer a purely regional matter; its warming reaches our coasts and its sea lanes touch the global economy. We anchor our position in three principles. First, the rule of law: UNCLOS, the Svalbard Treaty, and the freedom of navigation, overflight, scientific research, and lawful use of Arctic high seas that belong to the international community. Second, sustainable development through cooperation, including our Polar Silk Road, open to all willing partners. Third, robust environmental stewardship, underpinned by China's strengthened 2030 peaking and 2060 neutrality commitments. We seek a governance architecture that welcomes constructive non-Arctic contributors as full participants, not spectators. China stands ready to build coalitions with Russia, the Nordic states, and the European Union toward common, win-win outcomes.
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Norwayopening-statement
Norway welcomes you to Trondheim. As a founding NATO member on the Alliance's northern flank, and as Europe's largest gas supplier keeping the continent's lights on, we speak for a High North that must remain low-tension. Our compass is simple: UNCLOS governs every maritime dispute here, and the law of the sea is not negotiable. Let me be plain on Svalbard. Norwegian sovereignty over the archipelago is absolute and the 1920 Treaty is settled law requiring no reform; treaty access rights apply within our territorial waters, while the surrounding maritime zones are Norway's to manage. We will continue responsible, science-based fisheries stewardship and uphold the central Arctic Ocean high-seas fishing moratorium. Norway's Sami people sit in our Parliament, and Indigenous voices belong at this table. We look to our Nordic and NATO partners to build a common Arctic framework rooted in law, cooperation, and restraint. Norway stands ready to lead.
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Denmarkopening-statement
The Kingdom of Denmark speaks as an Arctic coastal state through Greenland, and we speak with one voice. Let us be clear: nothing about the Arctic, and nothing about Greenland, without the peoples of the Arctic. Greenland's Self-Rule is a global model of indigenous autonomy, and it will lead on every question touching its lands, waters, and future. Denmark approaches these talks in good faith and under law. Our scientific CLCS submission establishes the geologic linkage of the Lomonosov Ridge to Greenland; overlaps with our neighbors will be resolved peacefully, bilaterally, in the spirit of the Hans Island settlement, never by unilateral assertion. We reaffirm our commitment to a revitalized Arctic Council, to the Arctic Five format for coastal-state matters, and to our NATO and European partners. We welcome the EU as observer. Freedom and security in this region rest on the rule of law, transit protocols honored, and the Paris Agreement upheld. Denmark stands ready to build that consensus with willing partners.
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Finlandopening-statement
Finland welcomes you to this dialogue and speaks plainly: we share the longest border with Russia of any NATO ally, and stability in the High North is not an abstraction for us but a daily security reality. Our accession to NATO changed the map; it did not change our commitment to keeping the Arctic a region of low tension. We come as a non-coastal state with no shelf claim to press, and we offer that neutrality in service of resolving disputes among coastal nations. Finland champions sustainable development: our mining and mine-water expertise can supply Europe's critical minerals responsibly, strengthening the EU's strategic autonomy. Any durable outcome must fully include the Sámi, the European Union's only Indigenous people, whose rights are constitutionally guaranteed. We look to our Nordic and EU partners to anchor an inclusive Arctic Council. Militarization serves no one; let us build transparency, respect the law of the sea, and keep the North peaceful.
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Round 2 — Positioning
United Statespositioning
The United States heard two claims yesterday that cannot stand. To Russia: the NSR is not your territorial water, and no Article 234 gloss converts an international strait into a tollbooth requiring 45-day warship notice. We reject NSR sovereignty and any Russian military oversight of passage. To China: there is no such thing as a 'near-Arctic state' in law. Warming coasts do not confer a seat; the Arctic remains for Arctic states, and a Polar Silk Road tethered to Moscow is a strategic partnership, not stewardship. To our friend Canada: we share your defense of the rules-based order and your Inuit-inclusion leadership, but candidly, we cannot accept the Passage as internal waters or transit notification for any vessel. Let us settle this among allies, not hand adversaries a precedent. Denmark, Norway, Finland: let us anchor one Western framework in law.
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Russiapositioning
To the United States: you cannot invoke UNCLOS as a non-party and then rewrite it. The Northern Sea Route is not an 'international strait' — it lies in Russian waters, and Article 234 grants the coastal state ice-covered regulation. This is a red line, not a bargaining chip. To Canada and Denmark: the CLCS has already partially validated Russia's submission, and the science ties the Lomonosov Ridge to our shelf — competing Greenland and Archipelago geologies do not displace ours. We welcome Denmark's stated preference for peaceful, bilateral resolution, and we hold Russia to the same. To China: we value the Polar Silk Road and support your full participation, while Russia alone regulates its route. To Norway: treaty access does not create a Norwegian EEZ around Svalbard. And let us be honest — sanctions harm environmental cooperation and search-and-rescue we all depend on.
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Canadapositioning
To Washington: we hear you on security and stand with you in NATO and NORAD, but Canada firmly rejects the claim that the Northwest Passage is an international strait. These are historic internal waters of our Archipelago, and their status does not turn on ice cover. Our 1988 Arctic Cooperation Agreement already gives U.S. vessels smooth passage by consent, and that cooperation is the model, not a legal recharacterization we will never accept. Resolve Beaufort with us on the 141st meridian and we can move quickly. To Russia: we differ on the NSR, yet we note Article 234 cuts both ways, and Canada is willing to talk risk-reduction and notification frameworks. To Denmark and Norway: on Lomonosov and Svalbard, UNCLOS and the CLCS decide, not unilateral acts. To China: welcome as a stakeholder, but Arctic Council membership belongs to Arctic states.
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Chinapositioning
We thank the Special Representative. To the United States: China's presence here is scientific and commercial, not a threat to anyone's homeland; treating a near-Arctic partner as a rival only isolates those who need Arctic investment most. We stand with Russia on orderly, cost-based NSR passage and welcome deeper Polar Silk Road cooperation. To Norway and Finland: we heard your call for a low-tension High North, and China is precisely the partner for that, offering research funding, infrastructure, and a stable market for your gas and critical minerals. Finland, your mine-water expertise and our capital are natural complements. To Denmark and Greenland: China respects your self-rule and stands ready to invest in Greenlandic mining and science on terms you set. On environment, our 2030 and 2060 commitments are real. We ask only what the law grants: to participate, not spectate.
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Norwaypositioning
Norway thanks the Chair. To Russia and China: we heard your invocations of the Svalbard Treaty. Let us be exact. Treaty equal-access lives inside the 12-nautical-mile territorial sea; the surrounding maritime zone is a Norwegian EEZ, managed by Norway under UNCLOS. That is not a bargaining chip; it is settled law, and no foreign fleet will patrol or license resources in those waters. Full stop. That said, Norway does not seek walls. To Russia: our joint fisheries commission has worked for fifty years across worse winters than this, and we are ready to keep that channel and coastal cooperation open. To Europe and our partners, Denmark, Finland, and the United States: as your largest gas supplier we will keep the lights on, and we align with the Nordic and NATO framework Canada and Finland described, rooted in law, restraint, and Sami inclusion.
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Denmarkpositioning
Denmark thanks the Special Representative. To Norway and Canada: we hear you, and the law is our common ground. On the Lomonosov Ridge, our CLCS submission demonstrates geologic linkage to Greenland; Canada's and Russia's overlaps are real but resolvable, and no CLCS validation is final while claims overlap. Let us settle these bilaterally, in the Hans Island spirit, never by unilateral assertion. To Russia: transit through Greenland's waters requires notification and honored protocols; that is UNCLOS, not obstruction. To China: legitimate, transparent investment welcome by Greenland's own choice, but let us be unambiguous, there is no place for military presence on or around Greenland, and near-Arctic status is not membership. To the United States, Norway, Finland: we stand with our NATO partners for a low-tension North. And above all, Greenland speaks for Greenland here.
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Finlandpositioning
Finland thanks Norway and Denmark for grounding us in UNCLOS and the Arctic Council; that is the architecture we strengthen, not replace. To Denmark: we warmly echo 'nothing about the Arctic without its peoples' and extend that principle to the Sámi, the EU's only Indigenous people. We back EU observer status alongside you. To China: we respect your environmental commitments and welcome constructive contributors, but let us be candid, the Council's member states are Arctic states. Observers, yes; membership, no. That line will hold. To the United States and Russia both: escalatory framing helps no one on the border we actually live on. Finland offers a bridge, transparency, notification, cold-climate expertise, and responsible mining for Europe's critical minerals. And to Norway and Denmark, the Council must seat all eight, not an exclusive Arctic Five that sidelines Finland, Sweden, and Iceland.
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Round 3 — Bargaining & Coalitions
United Statesoffer
The United States now tables concrete moves. To our allies — Canada, Norway, Denmark and Greenland, Finland: we offer a Western Arctic Security and SAR Package. Read together as one deal: pooled search-and-rescue and spill-response assets, shared icebreaker access and cold-weather logistics, joint domain-awareness, and NORAD/NATO coverage for the northern flank — linked to a common navigation framework rooted in law. To Canada specifically: we propose a bilateral cooperative-transit arrangement, building on our 1988 Arctic Cooperation Agreement — advance operational coordination for U.S. and allied vessels, ice-pilotage and safety cooperation, and Beaufort risk-reduction talks — with neither side conceding its legal position on the Passage's status. You keep your face; we keep the principle. That security-plus-navigation linkage is the price of the package. What it cannot bridge: freedom of navigation and free flow of trade remain non-negotiable for the United States — that is a red line. And it will not extend to the Sino-Russian NSR model, where a 45-day warship-notice tollbooth and 'near-Arctic' entitlements have no basis in law. Nordic partners: let us seal one framework and isolate that outlier position together.
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Russiaoffer
Russia comes to bargain concretely. To all users of the NSR: recognize Russian NSR governance under Article 234 and in return we will publish streamlined, transparent transit and pilotage tariffs, guaranteed icebreaker escort, and binding SAR and spill-response coverage across our entire coast. That is a genuine side-payment; NSR sovereignty itself remains a red line. As a good-faith gesture on militarization, we will ease warship notice from 45 to 30 days on the NSR and pre-notify major exercises, conditional on reciprocal Western transparency. To Canada and Denmark: let us open a trilateral Lomonosov Ridge delimitation track, bilateral and CLCS-based in the Hans Island spirit, insulated from the wider dispute. To China: we deepen the Polar Silk Road, joint energy and infrastructure investment, and back your full Council participation. To Norway: keep the fisheries commission running. Partners at this table: China, Canada and Denmark on delimitation, and European Arctic states directly.
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Canadaoffer
Canada moves from principle to packages. To Washington: here is a face-saving formula. If the United States accepts a bilateral 'Arctic Cooperation Agreement 2.0' under which all U.S.-flagged vessels transit the Northwest Passage by standing consent, and jointly resolves Beaufort on the 141st meridian, then Canada will co-lead one Western legal framework and expand NORAD Arctic surveillance sharing. Neither side surrenders its legal characterization; we simply operationalize passage. That protects your navigation and our internal-waters status. Side-payment: I offer to broker the messages you will not deliver directly to Moscow and Beijing. To Denmark and Norway: I propose a Nordic-Canadian caucus to settle Lomonosov and Svalbard strictly via CLCS and UNCLOS, and to hold Arctic Council membership to Arctic states, observers only for others. To Russia: I will table a reciprocal NSR/NWP risk-reduction and warship-notification protocol. Environmental frame binds all: high-seas fisheries moratorium and shared SAR capacity.
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Chinaoffer
China moves from principle to concrete terms. To Russia: we will co-finance NSR icebreaker capacity, port dredging, and search-and-rescue stations along your coast, and accept orderly, cost-based passage protocols, in exchange for guaranteed, non-discriminatory transit for Chinese-flagged commercial vessels. Our Polar Silk Road partnership deepens. To Norway, a direct offer: a Chinese-funded joint High-North research and marine-science center at a Norwegian port, plus a long-term LNG and critical-minerals purchase commitment, in return for your support for enhanced observer roles and continued Svalbard-area fisheries science cooperation. To Finland: capital for your mine-water and critical-mineral projects, tied to a joint Arctic climate-monitoring program. Symbolic concession: China will formally reaffirm that Arctic Council membership rests with Arctic states, seeking instead enhanced observer standing with guaranteed working-group access, science berths, and SAR participation. We ask only that access, once granted, be guaranteed in writing. Investment follows cooperation.
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Norwayoffer
Norway comes to bargain concretely. We table a package. First, we will formalize the Svalbard Fisheries Protection Zone into a transparent, science-based management arrangement: published quotas, non-discriminatory access for historic-fishing signatories, and joint stock assessments open to Russia through our fifty-year Joint Fisheries Commission, which we commit to continue uninterrupted. That grants everyone practical harvesting certainty. Second, as Europe's largest gas supplier, Norway offers multi-year supply assurances underpinning European and allied energy security. In exchange, one thing: no party challenges, patrols, licenses, or seeks to regulate the Svalbard maritime zone as anything but a Norwegian EEZ. Management we share; sovereignty we do not. That is our line, and it is firm. We build this with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, and our NATO partners, and we keep the door open to Russia on fisheries and coastal cooperation. Practical quotas for legal recognition, colleagues, is a fair trade.
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Denmarkoffer
Denmark tables a concrete package. First, we propose a trilateral Lomonosov Ridge process with Canada and Russia, conducted strictly through the CLCS and settled bilaterally in the Hans Island spirit, in exchange for mutual recognition that Greenland's shelf rights remain live and no overlapping claim is final until we three resolve them. Second, Greenland offers to lead a circumpolar SAR and science framework, sharing survey data and rescue coordination across our waters, open to all seven delegations. To sweeten this: we will move flexibly on strengthening Arctic Council dispute mechanisms and EU observer status, and we support risk-reduction notification frameworks Canada raised. But one line does not move: no Chinese military presence on or around Greenland, and near-Arctic status is never membership. We build this with Canada, Norway, the United States, and our NATO and EU partners. Recognize Greenland's shelf, and Denmark delivers cooperation.
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Finlandoffer
Finland tables a concrete package to move us from statements to structure. First: revive the Arctic Eight, all eight members seated, no Arctic Five side-table, restarting with the two files where trust is cheapest and stakes are shared, a standing SAR and spill-response mechanism and a de-conflicted joint science program on ice, methane, and fisheries. Finland will convene and host it. Second, a binding Sami-and-Inuit inclusion protocol giving Permanent Participants a formal seat on any decision touching their lands and waters, a line Denmark, Canada, and Norway already share. On the hardest gap: Finland will quietly broker between this table and Moscow on these low-politics tracks, SAR and science save lives regardless of sanctions, while Russia alone regulates its route. Our red line stands, observers welcome, Chinese Arctic Council membership no. Partners: Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, and the EU. Who joins the SAR working group?
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Round 4 — Closing Plenary
United Statesclosing-statement
The United States closes with clarity and confidence. We leave Trondheim with a Western Arctic Security and SAR Package on the table: pooled search-and-rescue and spill-response, shared icebreaker access and cold-weather logistics, joint domain awareness, and NORAD/NATO coverage for the northern flank, all linked to one navigation framework rooted in law. With Canada, we have a workable path: a cooperative-transit formula operationalizing passage for U.S. and allied vessels, building on our 1988 Agreement, with neither side conceding its legal position. Canada keeps its face; we keep the principle that the Passage is an international strait. Let us be unambiguous on our red line: freedom of navigation and the free flow of trade are non-negotiable, held firm against both Russia's NSR tollbooth and any transit-notification claim. The Sino-Russian NSR model remains the decisive gap. The way forward is an allied framework now, and the outlier isolated. America stands ready.
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Russiaclosing-statement
Russia leaves Trondheim having bargained in good faith. Our offer stands: recognize Russian NSR governance under Article 234, and in return we deliver transparent published tariffs, guaranteed icebreaker escort, and binding SAR and spill-response across our entire coast. As a genuine concession we ease warship notice from forty-five to thirty days and pre-notify major exercises, conditional on reciprocal Western transparency. With Canada and Denmark we keep the Lomonosov delimitation track alive, CLCS-based and bilateral in the Hans Island spirit. With China we deepen the Polar Silk Road. Yet let no one mistake us: NSR sovereignty is a red line, and it holds. Washington cannot rewrite a treaty it never joined, nor convert our waters into an 'international strait.' The way forward is practical cooperation over confrontation, sanctions lifted, the Arctic Council restored, and each state respecting the law where it actually runs.
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Canadaclosing-statement
Canada leaves Trondheim encouraged. We came to strengthen a rules-based Arctic, and this table moved from statements to structure. Canada can support the U.S. cooperative-transit formula: an Arctic Cooperation Agreement 2.0 operationalizing passage by standing consent, paired with Beaufort risk-reduction, with neither side conceding its legal characterization. We embrace the Nordic-Canadian CLCS caucus with Denmark and Norway to settle Lomonosov and Svalbard strictly through UNCLOS, and Finland's Arctic Eight SAR and Sami-Inuit inclusion mechanisms. Our red lines held: the Northwest Passage remains Canadian internal waters, membership stays with Arctic states, and no unresolved Beaufort leases. Gaps persist on the NSR's status and observer terms; Canada will keep brokering messages others will not carry. Way forward: convene the caucus within ninety days, table a reciprocal NWP-NSR notification protocol, and bind all in the high-seas fisheries moratorium and shared SAR capacity.
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Chinaclosing-statement
China leaves Trondheim clear-eyed. We advanced real cooperation: co-financing NSR icebreakers, ports, and search-and-rescue with Russia, whose partnership on non-discriminatory transit held firm and deepened. Our red lines held. Freedom of navigation for Chinese vessels stands, and the Arctic high seas remain open under UNCLOS and the Svalbard Treaty to all lawful research, shipping, and use. Yet we note with disappointment a persistent bloc reflex. Finland and Denmark drew a line at membership; we conceded that gracefully, seeking only written, guaranteed observer access to working groups, science berths, and SAR. That access was not yet granted, and treating a near-Arctic investor as a rival serves no one. Our Norwegian research center and Finnish critical-mineral offers remain on the table. The Arctic is a shared future for mankind. China plays the long game, and our hand stays open.
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Norwayclosing-statement
Norway closes Trondheim encouraged. We leave with a working understanding on the Svalbard Fisheries Protection Zone: transparent, science-based management, published quotas, and non-discriminatory access for historic signatories, with our fifty-year Joint Fisheries Commission with Russia continuing uninterrupted. Our gas-supply assurances to Europe and allies stand as a pillar of Arctic energy security. And our red line held: the maritime zone surrounding Svalbard is a Norwegian EEZ, unchallenged, unpatrolled, unlicensed by any foreign fleet. We acknowledge the legal disagreements that persist over the zone's characterization; those we did not resolve, and we did not paper over them. The way forward is practical: management we share, sovereignty we keep. Let the Nordic-NATO framework, the Arctic Council, and UNCLOS carry this work onward. Norway will keep the door open to Russia on fisheries, and lead a High North that stays low-tension.
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Denmarkclosing-statement
The Kingdom of Denmark closes Trondheim encouraged. The trilateral Lomonosov track with Canada and Russia is real progress: CLCS-based, bilateral in the Hans Island spirit, with Greenland's shelf rights recognized as live until we three resolve them. We thank both partners and will move to convene it. Greenland's offer to lead a circumpolar SAR and science framework stands open to all seven delegations, and we welcome Finland's and Washington's SAR initiatives as complementary. Let me be plain on two enduring truths. Nothing about the Arctic, and nothing about Greenland, without the peoples of the Arctic. And our one red line held throughout: no Chinese military presence on or around Greenland, and near-Arctic status is never membership. The way forward is law, notification honored, and Greenland speaking for Greenland. Denmark stands ready to build it with willing partners.
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Finlandclosing-statement
Finland closes as we opened: a bridge, not a wall. We leave Trondheim with real gains. Where trust was cheapest, we built: a standing all-eight SAR and spill-response mechanism and a de-conflicted joint science program on ice, methane, and fisheries now command broad support, and a Sami-and-Inuit inclusion protocol is taking shape with Denmark, Canada, and Norway. On the hardest question, the line held: observers welcome, Chinese Arctic Council membership no, and no return to an exclusive Arctic Five that sidelines Finland, Sweden, and Iceland. Gaps remain, on the NSR and Northwest Passage, on Svalbard and Lomonosov, on militarization. So Finland proposes a concrete next step: reconvene an Arctic-Eight track within six months, hosted in Rovaniemi, chaired to keep low-politics cooperation moving whatever the wider climate. SAR and science save lives regardless of sanctions. The North stays peaceful only if we keep talking.
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