correspondence copy
Dmitry Polyansky said on his Telegram channel that Russia has distributed to the UN a copy of its correspondence with Denmark, Sweden and Germany regarding the Nord Stream attacks.
“As part of efforts to support the draft UNSC resolution establishing under UN auspices an international commission to investigate sabotage in North Stream, we have circulated a copy as an official document of the Security Council and UNGA. Polansky wrote our correspondence with Denmark, Sweden and Germany regarding their national investigations.
He believes these documents will allow other UN states to “convince” that the three European countries’ claims to inform Russia about the progress of investigations into the explosions are “not true to reality”.
In an interview with The Dive YouTube channel, the diplomat promised to distribute the letters at the UN Security Council on March 10. He then stressed that although the Russian Federation was required to participate in the investigation, Denmark, Sweden and Germany denied the Russian side “access to any information” and “involvement of any kind”.
“But they just write us letters, ‘We do our job and you mind your own business,’” Polyansky complained.
It also announced that at the end of March, the UN Security Council would vote on Russia’s resolution to open an international investigation into the explosions at the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. At the same time, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN noted that “the work of the experts is not going well”, but the representatives of Russia are “patient”.
“We will probably put the text to a vote in the UN Security Council by the end of March. Western countries recognize that this is unnecessary, the information is unreliable, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if he tries to argue. “We know how they apply double standards when the situation is not in their favour,” he said.
Commenting on the publications of the American newspaper The New York Times and the German publication Zeit that Ukraine was behind the Nord Stream explosions last year, Polyansky said that these articles were an attempt to divert attention from what actually happened.
Benefit for London and the USA
At the end of September 2022, both Russian gas pipelines – Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 – laid at the bottom of the Baltic Sea – failed due to explosions. Sweden, Denmark and Germany are investigating, but so far no concrete results have emerged from these countries. On March 7, The New York Times reported that a “pro-Ukrainian group” was behind the attacks, citing unidentified US officials. In a Zeit report published the same day, it was said that German investigative authorities had “made progress” in their investigation of the explosions and found “traces to Ukraine”.
The day before, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, in an interview with aif.ru, said that without the results of an impartial trial, no accusation of a terrorist attack on Nord Streams can be credible.
“Moscow insists on conducting an objective investigation with the participation of Russia and other interested states. “Without it, voicing one-sided, subjective versions of the terrorist attack doesn’t explain anything,” he said.
The Secretary of the Security Council of Russia also believes that “Kiev has not lost or gained anything from the destruction of the gas pipeline,” there is no need for the “Ukrainian authorities” to take such action.
“We still don’t know exactly who the author and perpetrator of the North Stream explosions are. Russia was never involved in the investigation of this unprecedented act of terrorism. The situation is aimed at confusing the filling of a fictitious data leak published without attribution to a real source,” Patrushev stressed.
He also suggested that the theme of the United States and Britain not being involved in the explosions was introduced “based on the audience’s inability to think logically.” Therefore, “by order from above” a certain Ukrainian group was appointed as the culprit of the terrorist attack.
“It’s no secret that special forces with the appropriate equipment and training are intended to carry out such actions. They definitely have the USA and the UK. Other NATO countries also use combat swimmers to carry out their sabotage missions, but only with the approval and support of the country that sets the main agenda in the North Atlantic Alliance,” says the Secretary of the Security Council.
He also noted that the explosions did not benefit Germany, as the country’s officials were aware that “a terrorist attack on the pipeline would certainly lead to a further decline in the German economy.” And the “economic cooperation” of Moscow and Berlin “did not fit at all” for London and Washington.