The Northern Sea Route: а National or an International Transportation Corridor?
... whole, did not contain anything radically new, but, on the contrary, reflected the very traditional, decades-old approach of the United States and some other countries to the issue of the legal status of Canada’s Northwest Passage (NWP) and Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR). In particular, the U.S. Admiral said that “Canada, like Russia, views the Northwest Passage as their internal waters. We interpret that as, no, this is an international strait and it is open for transit passage, which is our ...