UN Security Council meeting on Nord Stream to be held on February 21

The meeting of the UN Security Council on the blowing up of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines will be held on February 21, informs TASS with reference to the meeting program.

At the meeting, which will begin at 23:00 Moscow time, Russia will present a draft resolution on the investigation of explosions on gas pipelines. As the agency notes, Moscow offered to hold the meeting on February 22, but on this day the special session of the UN General Assembly resumes its work.

On the preparation by the Russian Federation of a special meeting to investigate the explosions at Nord Stream last week, February 15, informed Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. During it, Moscow will “demand to find some form of investigation,” he noted.

February 14 to the State Duma made a draft appeal to the UN calling for an international investigation into incidents on gas pipelines. In response, the organization pointed to the lack of a mandate to conduct an investigation. Russia does not agree with this position of the UN, Lavrov stressed.

The incident at Nord Stream occurred on the night of September 26, 2022. Both pipelines were depressurized by an explosion, after which two leaks were discovered that were located in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Sweden, and two more 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.

February 8 American journalist Seymour Hersh published investigation of the Nord Stream incident, in which he accused the United States and Norway of being involved in the bombing. The White House and the European Commission called this information unreliable.