MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. The potential for conflict in the Arctic region is on the rise, Nikolay Korchunov, Russia’s senior diplomat for Arctic affairs, said.

"We can see that, recently, the attention of the entire world community toward the Arctic region has increased, and geopolitically the region is also increasingly becoming an important platform. Unfortunately, the potential for conflict in the region is also increasing," the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large said on Friday at a roundtable discussion on the history of Russia's achievements in the Arctic.

Korchunov pointed out that the Arctic region is becoming more and more accessible because of climate change and new technologies, as well as "because of the resources that the global economy desperately needs, the demand for which <...> will only grow, especially with the energy transition."

The diplomat also emphasized that Moscow's "extremely important task" in the Arctic region is "the further strengthening of Russian sovereignty."