The Faroe Islands have declared their unwillingness to close the access to their ports for fishing vessels from the Russian Federation

Published 2023년 4월 25일

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The Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish region, have the autonomy to decide on their own whether to allow Russian fishing vessels in their ports, despite calls from Denmark to ban such ships. The Faroese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hogni Hoydala, stated that the islands can manage their security and have increased control over fishing and transportation of goods in their waters. This decision has been made despite concerns from Scandinavian countries about potential Russian subversive activities and the extension of the 1977 fishing quota agreement with Russia, which has been objected to by the EU and Denmark due to the situation in Ukraine.

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The authorities of the Faroe Islands are able to independently determine their position regarding the admission of Russian fishing vessels to their ports and do not intend to follow calls from Copenhagen to ban the admission of ships from the Russian Federation. This was announced on Tuesday by the Brussels portal Yuraktiv, citing a statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Danish island autonomy, Hogni Hoydala. "The Faroe Islands are quite capable [on their own] of assessing what is happening on their territory," the Faroese minister said, commenting on the call by the leader of the opposition Conservative People's Party of Denmark to ban Russian ships from entering the ports of the archipelago because of the alleged threat to the security of the kingdom. Hoydal stressed that such statements are "attempts to undermine democracy in the Faroe Islands" by transferring the issue of the presence of ships from the Russian Federation in the ports of the archipelago to the ...

Source: Kvedomosti