OTTAWA, Dec 3: Canada has been working on its Arctic foreign policy and plans to unveil it in the coming days, the country’s foreign minister, Melanie Joly, said.
In June, Joly said that Canada was working on updating its Arctic foreign policy to take into account the global geopolitical situation, particularly the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO.
“We’ve been working on Arctic foreign policy and that we’re going to present our Arctic foreign policy in the coming days,” Joly told a press conference.
The top diplomat noted the importance of Canada’s collaboration with the United States and the Nordic nations on the Arctic, adding that the countries have to change their “threat assessment of what’s going on” in the region.
Canada is now building eight new icebreakers, with the country’s authorities planning to increase the production of icebreakers in the US, the minister also said.
In November, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced that the US, Canada and Finland had signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation in the production of Arctic and polar icebreakers. In July, the three countries announced a new partnership titled the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort (ICE) Pact. (UNI)
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