“Russia expresses its readiness to resume dialogue in high latitudes,” TASS quotes him as saying at a briefing following the results of the first year of Russia’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
Korchunov stressed that the early resumption of the full-scale work of the Arctic Council is in the interests of the entire international community.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that almost all areas of Russia's security are concentrated in the Arctic.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concern about the growing military activity of the North Atlantic Alliance in the Arctic region.