"We had a far-reaching conversation with regards to the various theaters in the world where there are interests of the United States of real significance," Mr. Romney told reporters.

JOHN SIMPSON: Libyan terrorists planted a bomb on an American PanAm airliner which blew up over Lockerbie. Colonel Gaddafi's Libya got the blame and was thought to have given instructions.

A "New Arctic" is emerging that is functionally operating in a dramatically changed—and rapidly changing—world order. This New Arctic is a direct consequence of unprecedented changes in the global climate system and concurrent transformations in the geopolitical world, all of which further drive changes in the Arctic, which in turn have global consequences. The scale of change in this New Arctic presents a new and shifting reality, with global reach. These rapid changes provide new venues and opportunities that affect the interests of Arctic coastal nations and high-north businesses and governance. Finally, a new international multi-decadal-scale agenda is emerging that increasingly focuses on four major changes, with international and domestic consequences: climate change, global and Arctic regional socio-economic change, challenges that affect human and societal well-being, and geopolitical realities.