Under the terms of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty" id="mwqg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Svalbard Treaty">Svalbard Treaty</a>, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard" id="mwqw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Svalbard">Svalbard</a>, and designates it as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demilitarized" id="mwrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Demilitarized">demilitarized</a>.