There is currently developing a diplomatic war of words between Russia and Norway in connection with the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin, appeared in Longyearbyen Saturday.
Rogozin is on both EU and Norwegian sanction list of Russian citizens who do not get to visit the EU or Norway.
– I have noted that the Deputy Prime Minister has been on Svalbard, but that now he has ripped. Then we’ll hopefully more information from the Russian ambassador when he summoned on the carpet in the morning, said Mr Brende TV2 Sunday.
First Deputy Chairman of the Russian foreign affairs committee, Leonid Kalashnikov does pass out Sunday night and asserts the sovereignty-related situation in Svalbard is not provided.
– Svalbard is a free economic and political zone where Norway’s sovereignty does not apply fully. Rogozin has acted within their rights and in accordance with law. He once put a comma at the status of Svalbard, says Kalashnikov radio station “Moscow calls.”
Make fun of Norway
It was Saturday that Rogozin let out pictures that showed that he was in Longyearbyen.
– The Governor has a good overview of the movements in Svalbard, but I do not want to elaborate on it, says Brende.
Sunday, the news about the Norwegian reaction to the Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Rogizin makes clear mockery of Norwegian authorities.
– It is too late to wave their fists after a fight, twittering, he as a rebuttal of the Norwegian authorities in response to his stay in Svalbard.
Brende will not stir up the Deputy Prime Minister’s rebuttal.
– It is left for his bill, we are moving not into such a discussion like this. Now the Russian ambassador summoned and then we get an explanation, he said.
Rogizin: – We will make the Arctic to our
For the message from the Russian news agency Tass that “Norwegian Foreign Ministry is dissatisfied with Rogozin visit Svalbard,” tweeted Rogozin Sunday:
– They’re just jealous that we are here at the North Pole and bathing.
The Norwegian reaction to the Deputy Prime Minister’s visit to Svalbard is Top Searches in several Russian media, and several have interviewed Rogozin on satellite phone from the North Pole.
– We have come to the Arctic to be and we should do it to ours, says Rogozin to Lenta.ru.
Flew to the North Pole
The controversial deputy prime minister flew Sunday further north to a Russian station at the North Pole.
Rogozin is the supreme leader of the newly established Russian Arctic Commission and is also head of the defense industry and the aerospace industry in Russia.
The former leader of the party Rodina, “homeland”, was from 2008 to 2011 Russia’s ambassador to NATO.
– Norway regrets that a listed person from Russia, the deputy prime minister, traveling to Svalbard and we want to get further explanation from Russia on what lies behind, says Brende.
PLANE: Plane to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dimitri Rogozin at the airport in Longyearbyen. Saturday gave the profiled Russian nationalist simply flout the innreisenekten and defied thereby Norwegian authorities. Photo: TV 2
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