Energy cooperation and the demarcation of...

Medvedev will travel to Norway on an invitation from King Harald V.

On Monday, the Russian president will meet with the king and his spouse, Queen Sonia, and hold talks with the president of the Norwegian parliament, Dag Terje Andersen, Sergei Prikhodko said. On Tuesday, the Russian leader is expected to discuss bilateral relations with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

The agenda of the forthcoming talks includes a wide range of issues, Prikhodko said.

"Among the key issues is cooperation in the spheres of energy, fishery, environmental protection, nuclear and radiation security. Special attention in expected to be paid to the issues concerning talks on the delimitation of maritime areas in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean," he said.

The Arctic territories, believed to hold vast untapped oil and gas reserves, have increasingly been at the center of disputes between Russia and Norway, as well as the United States, Canada and Denmark as rising

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