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The United Nations rejects Russia’s plan to investigate the attack on Nord Stream from a mysterious antenna


03/28/2023

Updated at 12:09 PM.

The UN Security Council on Monday disapproved of a Chinese-backed Russian initiative to condemn and investigate the September sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the North Sea.

Last week, the Danish government confirmed that an inspection of the intact pipeline had found a tubular object protruding about 40 cm (about 16 inches) from the sea floor and about 10 cm in diameter. “The object does not present any immediate security risk,” they explained at the time, as reported by Reuters.

Three countries voted in favor of the text, 12 countries abstained and no country voted against it, and therefore the resolution proposal did not receive the nine necessary support for its approval, as highlighted by Russian media.

The document called these “acts of vandalism” a “threat to international peace and stability” and called for an “effective, impartial, transparent, thorough and comprehensive international investigation” to hold all concerned parties accountable. For this reason, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, urged the creation of a commission of experts to investigate what happened.

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines are owned by Russia’s state-owned company Gazprom and link Russia with Germany across the Baltic Sea to supply natural gas to the heart of Europe. In 2021, Russia provided 45 percent of the natural gas to the European Union, but by November 2022 the figure had fallen to 13 percent after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

US Representative Robert Wood “categorically” rejected Moscow’s “unfounded” accusations about the alleged US involvement in the attacks and accused Russia of trying to discredit investigations opened by Sweden or Denmark into what happened. He stressed that Russia “does not seek the truth.”

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