Denmark announced the consent of Nord Stream 2 to participate in the extraction of an object from the gas pipeline

The operator of Nord Stream 2 AG has accepted an invitation from the Danish Energy Agency (Energistyrelsen) to take part in an operation to recover an object found near Nord Stream 2. About it reported agency on Twitter.

“Nord Stream 2 AG today informed the Danish Energy Agency that it is accepting an invitation to participate in the operation to extract a spotted object near the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline,” the social media post said.

Invitation from the Danish Energy Agency received previously. It was clarified that we are talking about an object 40 cm long and 10 cm in diameter – the agency does not exclude that it could be a sea smoke buoy. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov named On the positive side, Denmark’s invitation to Nord Stream 2 AG. But we need to see “what will be behind this,” the spokesman noted. He called it critical to determine what the “object” is. As Peskov said, this investigation should be “transparent, transparent, inclusive in terms of the participation of all interested parties there.”

The explosion at Nord Stream occurred on the night of September 26, 2022. Pressure dropped in both pipelines. Two subsequently discovered leaks were in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Sweden, and two more were in the Danish EEZ. Initially, Germany, Sweden and Denmark agreed to conduct a joint investigation, but this idea was later abandoned. In October 2022, Sweden announced the completion of the investigation, stating “increasing suspicions of gross sabotage”, but those responsible for what happened were not named. Moreover, Sweden refused to hand over the results of the investigation to Russia.

On March 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian side offered the Danish authorities to form an international group of experts and conduct a survey of the Nord Stream lines, but received an ambiguous answer. 16 March Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lökke Rasmussen informedthat Copenhagen will not give Moscow permission to participate in the Nord Stream investigation. According to him, the investigations of Denmark, Sweden and Germany can be trusted, because in these countries “the rule of law reigns.”