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^- I'm grateful for Norway's leadership

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^in the Nordic-Baltic region,

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^and particularly appreciative of your measured efforts

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^to maintain stability in the High North,

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and in the Arctic, where you are the sentinel

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for NATO to the north.

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^- We share some borders with Russia in an area

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^that is vital to Russian security interests.

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^We now see increasingly aggressive Russian behavior

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in our neighborhood.

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Last year they simulated several air attacks

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on northern Norway.

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We follow the development

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of Russian military capabilities closely.

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Norway is NATO in the north, and Norway takes our

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responsibility in the High North very seriously.