The foreign ministers of five Arctic littoral states - Russia, the United States, Canada, Iceland and Norway - will meet in late May in Greenland, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website Friday, RIA Novosti reported.
The ministry said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store had discussed the meeting in a telephone conversation Friday.
They discussed "certain urgent issues in bilateral relations, as well as preparations for a conference of the five Arctic littoral states' foreign ministers in Greenland scheduled for the end of May 2008."