Strong Norwegian focus on economic cooperation in the Barents Region
- I believe that the Barents Cooperation can become an important arena for international cooperation also in mining and minerals as the Barents countries share both the potentials and the challenges in this field as well as a long experience of extraction and refinement. We will explore these issues in our work on a Norwegian national strategy of minerals which will be finalized later this year, said Rikke Lind, State Secretary, when visiting Sør-Varanger iron mine in Kirkenes in April.
Ms Rikke Lind, State Secretary of Ministry on Trade and Industry, visited Syd-Varanger iron mine in Kirkenes and the Sámi Parliament in Karasjok in April as part of the preparation of the Norwegian mineral strategy. Ms Lind also visited the Russian-Norwegian Border Station, Borisoglebsk-Storskog that has been expanded to handle the increase of cross-border transport.