the PRC into the Arctic Council

Original group members were conflicted over admitting the PRC into the Arctic Council as seven of eight members are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the eighth, the Russian Federation, is not. China gained observer status in 2013 and Russia has pushed for a more enhanced position, but the other members have not gone along with what would have been a change in the organization’s founding document (The Arctic Institute, June 6, 2023). In 2022, the seven NATO members limited the work of the Arctic Council to “projects that do not involve the participation of the Russian Federation” in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine สล็อตเว็บตรง