Russia Requested UNSC Meeting on Feb 22 on Nord Stream Pipeline Blast
16:49 GMT 15.02.2023 (Updated: 17:15 GMT 15.02.2023)
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UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The Russian Mission to the UN is planning to organize a UN Security Council meeting on the blast of the Nord Stream pipeline on February 22, the Russian Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Wednesday.
"In the light of new information regarding the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, we requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on February 22 at 15.00 New York time (23.00 Moscow time,” Polyanskiy wrote in his Telegram account.
On September 26, 2022, three of the four strings of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were damaged after an underwater blast.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report on February 8 detailing how US Navy divers planted explosives to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines, which Norway activated three months later.
US President Joe Biden decided to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines after more than nine months of secret discussions with his national security team, the report said.
The US government has repeatedly denied involvement in the blowing up of the Russian pipelines, while the Russian government has said the United States should explain itself and an open investigation into the blast needs to be undertaken.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report on February 8 detailing how US Navy divers planted explosives to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines, which Norway activated three months later.
US President Joe Biden decided to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines after more than nine months of secret discussions with his national security team, the report said.
The US government has repeatedly denied involvement in the blowing up of the Russian pipelines, while the Russian government has said the United States should explain itself and an open investigation into the blast needs to be undertaken.
