丹麦拒绝了俄罗斯试图启动对话、迅速决定哪些国家拥有包括北极点在内的北极圈大片土地主权的尝试。
Denmark has rebuffed Russian attempts to launch talks aimed at swiftly deciding which nations own large swaths of the Arctic, including the North Pole.
丹麦外交部长克里斯蒂安•延森(Kristian Jensen)向英国《金融时报》表示，他希望坚持联合国进程，专家们认为，这一进程需要数十年才能厘清各国在北极圈内的边界。
Kristian Jensen, Denmark’s foreign minister, told the Financial Times he wanted to stick to a UN process that experts think will take decades to sort out where borders in the Arctic lie.
我们需要应用国际法规。
We need to apply the international rules.
这是正确的前进道路，他称。
It’s the right way to go forward, he said.
俄罗斯自然资源部部长谢尔盖•东斯科伊(Sergei Donskoi)上周告诉总统弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)称，他希望在今年秋天与丹麦开启双边会谈。
Sergei Donskoi, Russia’s natural resources minister, last week told President Vladimir Putin he wanted to start bilateral talks with Denmark this autumn.
丹麦和俄罗斯均声称拥有北极点主权。
Denmark and Russia both claim ownership of the North Pole.
两国声索的北极地区的重叠部分总计约55万平方公里，两国均声称拥有罗蒙诺索夫海岭(Lomonosov Ridge)，这一海底山脉绵延1800公里，从格陵兰岛和加拿大海岸，一路延伸至东西伯利亚以北的俄罗斯海域。
In total, their Arctic applications overlap by about 550,000 sq km, with both claiming the Lomonosov Ridge that stretches 1,800km from off the coast of Greenland and Canada to Russian waters above eastern Siberia.
围绕谁控制北极圈的地缘政治紧张迄今被保持在最低水平，尽管人们普遍担忧俄罗斯、美国、加拿大、丹麦和挪威等国将展开一场新的大博弈(Great Game)。
Geopolitical tensions over who controls the Arctic have been kept to a minimum so far despite widespread fears over a new Great Game between the likes of Russia, the US, Canada, Denmark and Norway.
北极圈的大片领土不属于任何国家。
A big area of the Arctic is owned by nobody.
一家联合国机构正在评估各国领土主张的科学依据，如果这些主张有重叠，相关国家必须就边界线进行谈判。
A UN body evaluates the scientific basis for territorial claims and if they are found to be overlapping, countries must negotiate over the borders.
丹麦和俄罗斯都提交了对于北极点和罗蒙诺索夫海岭的领土主张。
Both Denmark and Russia have submitted claims for the North Pole and the Lomonosov Ridge.
预计加拿大将在2018年提出领土要求，专家们预测，其要求将与另外两国存在重大重叠。
Canada is expected to post a claim in 2018, with experts forecasting it will overlap significantly with the other two.
挪威并未对北极点或罗蒙诺索夫海岭提出领土要求。
Norway has not laid claim to the North Pole or ridge.
想要说我们能在双边环境这么做，或许为时过早。
It might be too soon to say that we can do this in a bilateral environment.
我们不了解加拿大的立场。
We don’t know about Canada.
他们可能说，‘嗨，你们正在瓜分我们这边的世界’，延森说。
They can say ‘Hey, you are dividing our part of the world’, Mr Jensen said.