丹麦将对北极点提出主权要求.docVIP

丹麦将对北极点提出主权要求 Denmark plans to lay claim to the North Pole and other areas in the Arctic, where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas, a leaked government document showed. The draft document titled Strategy for the Arctic said Denmarks Science Ministry has started collecting data to formally submit a claim for those areas to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf no later than 2014. 这份名为“北极圈战略”的文件中称，丹麦科学部已经开始收集数据，以便在2014年前向联合国大陆架界限委员会正式提交申请。 Russia, Norway and the U.S. have their own claims — sometimes competing — in a region believed to hold as much as 25 percent of the worlds undiscovered oil and gas. 除了丹麦，俄罗斯、挪威、美国三国也对北极有领土主张要求。据称，北极富含全世界25%未开采的石油和天然气。 The Danish government confirmed the authenticity of the document, which was first obtained by Danish Radio and published online by newspaper Information. 丹麦政府已经证实了文件的真实性。丹麦国家电台获悉后，《消息报》网上发布了文件内容。 Denmark has for years explored potential claims to areas off Greenland, a semiautonomous territory, but this is the first time the government explicitly states it will make a claim for the North Pole, said Martin Breum, a Danish journalist. 据丹麦记者Martin Breum说，丹麦多年来苦苦寻求机会获得格林兰岛以外的北极圈（半自治性领土）内土地主权，但是这是首次丹麦公开提出北极圈主张主权。 普特英语听力 免费学习英语 更多下载