The big talk on the second day of the Arctic Encounter Symposium on Friday in Anchorage about the one Arctic nation missing from the meeting: Russia.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The second day of the Arctic Encounter Symposium wrapped up Friday in Anchorage at the Dena’ina Center, with discussions ranging from climate change to inflation, and supply chain issues. However, the big talk Friday was about the one Arctic nation missing from the meeting: Russia.
U.S Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Joe Manchin of West Virginia were joined at the symposium on Friday by ambassadors from other Arctic nations. Murkowski called Russia’s absence “the big elephant in the room.” She added that Russia cannot engage in “atrocities that we are seeing play out on a daily basis” and still have a cooperative, diplomatic dialogue. The work of the Arctic has to continue, she said.
Climate change, workforce development are big topics at first day of Arctic Encounter Symposium in Anchorage “We put a piece of legislation together immediately which stopped every flow of dollar purchasing anything that we possibly could stop from being purchased, especially petroleum and energy from Russia,” Manchin said. “So they wouldn’t have one dollar coming from the U.S. economy that would support their war against Ukraine. And finally we passed the bill now 100 to nothing, unanimous. It doesn’t happen that often.
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