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This week shows security will continue to compete with climate for priority in Arctic politics

The Arctic Council ministerial meeting in Iceland acknowledged deafening bad news on climate change. But issues of hard security remain pervasive.

By Martin Breum May 21, 2021

As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled home from the Reykjavik Arctic Council ministerial meeting — and his first direct talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov — he stopped for several hours in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland’s international airport where he met with the country’s new prime minister, Muté B. Egede.

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