"Conciliatory rhetoric": why to United States of America declared need to support partnership with Russian Federation in Arctic

For United States of America it is important to continue cooperation with Russian Federation in Arctic. It was declared by the coordinator of State Department on this region Jim Dekhart. Thus Dekhart doubted opportunity "completely to fence off" the Arctic "from problems" which exist between two countries. According to experts, against unfriendly steps of the White house concerning Russian Federation the rhetoric of the American official looks "conciliatory". However analysts do not exclude that similar "positive" statements of United States of America can "simply probe the soil" for definition of the policy in the Arctic region...