“We have retained some lines of communication, we are cooperating in the field of fishing and together we are engaged in rescue operations at sea,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Gram noted that contacts between the Russian and Norwegian military are also maintained.

Earlier, the newspaper Bergens Tidende reported that the Norwegian company Bergen Engines had resumed deliveries of parts for gas turbines to Russia.