Ratify Law of the Sea

Foreign Policy Priorities in the FY2011 International Affairs Budget
Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Secretary Clinton:
“At the same time, we are developing a new architecture of cooperation to meet transnational global challenges like climate change and the use of our planet’s oceans. With regard to the latter, I want to reiterate my support for [...]

The New York Times
For hundreds of years, mariners have dreamed of an Arctic shortcut that would allow them to speed trade between Asia and the West. Two German ships are poised to complete that transit for the first time, aided by the retreat of Arctic ice that scientists have linked to global warming.
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The Calgary Herald
Canada and Russia have cooled the rhetoric over Arctic sovereignty and are emphasizing co-operation over competition on a range of Arctic issues, a senior Russian official says.
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