“The usual practice is that these types of border agreements are valid indefinitely,” NRK quoted her as saying.

Earlier, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin instructed the House Committee on International Affairs to study the issue of denunciation, or suspension, of the treaty between Russia and Norway on the delimitation of maritime spaces and cooperation in the Barents Sea.

On June 28, Norway rejected Russia's application for the passage of goods for Russian settlements on Svalbard through the only checkpoint on the Russian-Norwegian border - Storskog.

Russian Consul General in Svalbard Sergei Gushchin, commenting on Norway's refusal to allow cargo to pass for Russian settlements, suggested that the Norwegian authorities had not thought through all the consequences of this step.