going to begin this month — the biggest since the end of the cold war. i wanted to put to you what professor rasmus bertelsen from the university of tromso in norway says. he says, "conducting such a big military exercise in northern "norway now in light of the horrible situation "in eastern europe is rather risky". so, despite all this, you still believe that you should engage in dialogue with russia. i have to say russia has observer status over these exercises, but it's not attending this time round. but you think that's a good principle, to maintain this open dialogue, as it were, with russia? you know, there's not much dialogue with russia. i was foreign minister for seven years of norway, and i negotiated with russia a delimitation line in the barents and arctic sea. those were very detailed negotiations and led to a very modern treaty securing peace and order in the north, then we had dialogue. that was another window of opportunity around 2010. today, what's happening