Former Coast Guard 長，指導者 tapped as 北極の 外交官
WASHINGTON (AP) ― A retired Coast Guard 海軍大将 was 指名するd Wednesday as the first U.S. special 代表者／国会議員 for 北極の 問題／発行するs, 監督するing American 政策 in the icy 地域 that is becoming a 全世界の 焦点（を合わせる） for 経済的な 適切な時期s and 安全 関心s.
In a 声明, 国務長官 John Kerry said retired Adm. Robert J. Papp has 幅の広い 外交政策 experience and a "passion" for the 北極の that makes him the ideal 外交官 to 前進する U.S. 利益／興味s in the 地域.
"I could not be happier that he agreed to 延期する his 井戸／弁護士席-deserved 退職 and join our 成果／努力 in a 原因（となる） about which he is both 熱烈な and wise," Kerry said of Papp, who stepped 負かす／撃墜する as Coast Guard commandant just two months ago.
The U.S. next year will 議長，司会を務める the 北極の 会議, which is made up of eight nations that reach into the 北極の Circle and 目的（とする）s to 保護する the 雪解けing 地域 as its seas open to 商業の shipping traffic. The U.S. touches the 北極の Circle in Alaska, and that 明言する／公表する's two U.S. 上院議員s have long 圧力（をかける）d the Obama 行政 to 指名する a 永久の （外交）使節／代表 to the 地域.
The 北極の is growing hotter faster than any part of the globe. 全世界の warming has melted sea ice to levels that have given rise to what 専門家s 述べる as a 肉親，親類d of gold 急ぐ 緊急発進する to the 北極の.
U.S. 公式の／役人s 見積（る） the 北極の 持つ／拘留するs 13 パーセント of the world's undiscovered oil reserves and 30 パーセント of undiscovered gas deposits. Until recently, however, the 資源s that could 得る hundreds of billions of dollars in 歳入s were frozen over and unreachable.
Kerry also 指名するd Alaska's former 中尉／大尉／警部補 知事, Fran Ulmer, as a special 助言者 on 北極の science and 政策. Ulmer has 議長，司会を務めるd the U.S. 北極の 研究 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 during the Obama 行政.
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