How has the investigation into the Nord Stream explosions progressed?! Nebenzya, Russia
Mister Chairman.
Over the past more than a
year and a half since the explosion of two strings
of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea,
the Security Council has discussed this situation
about ten times, both in open and closed formats.
All members of the Security Council
condemned the deliberate destruction
of a large cross-border undersea gas
pipeline infrastructure facility.
This event undoubtedly posed a direct
threat to international peace and security.
The use of explosive devices against a
17 billion dollars gas pipeline lying on
the seabed resulted in critical damage to the
pipeline, serious environmental consequences,
and an obvious danger to shipping
in this part of the Baltic Sea.
Given the gravity of the crime, many of
our Security Council colleagues placed
their hope in the results of the national
investigations launched immediately after
the attack by Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
We immediately expressed skepticism in this
regard, based on the fact that Berlin,
Copenhagen and Stockholm refused to
cooperate with Russia as an interested party.
These doubts of ours intensified after these
countries completely refused to speak
in the Security Council and talk about
their work, limiting themselves to
distributing empty and vague letters.
However, their allies in the Security Council
preferred to turn a blind eye to this; they called
on the rest of the Council to do the same.
Like, let the three countries work without
any pressure and present concrete results.
At the same time, they repeated like a mantra
that they fully trust the authorities
of these countries, and that they
are convinced of the effectiveness of the
investigative actions they are carrying out.
Under these pretexts, Western members of the
Security Council did not support two Russian
initiatives last year: a draft Security Council
resolution instructing the UN Secretary-General
to present considerations for the formation of
an international independent commission under
the auspices of the Organization to investigate
what happened, as well as a draft statement by
the President of the Security Council expressing
concern about due to the lack of any information
from the international community about
the progress of the investigations.
As a result, the dangerous scenario about which
the Russian Federation and a number of other
colleagues have repeatedly warned the Security
Council has begun to materialize before our eyes.
Last February, information was
circulated in the Security Council
that the Danish and Swedish authorities had
terminated their national investigations.
What did they find out?
Nothing.
The only concrete conclusion remained the
conclusion made in the first days after the
terrorist attack that the Nord Stream branches
were deliberately destroyed by explosive devices.
And, despite the statement of this fact, it is
indicated that there are no grounds for continuing
criminal proceedings within their jurisdiction.
That is, there is a crime, but no one is going
to identify the perpetrators
and bring them to justice.
This is the same as if,
during a murder investigation,
a year later the investigation would come to
the conclusion that the victim was killed.
This is a scenario that is more
like theater of the absurd.
We know that Sweden, Denmark and Germany
have just circulated another letter that
adds nothing to what we will say today.
However, it seems that the Western
members of the Security Council are not
embarrassed by this unpleasant situation
and the unconvincing conclusions of their allies.
The next act of show in this very theater of the
absurd was their outright sabotage of negotiations
on a new draft statement by the President of the
Security Council that we proposed this month.
According to our idea, it would allow us to
assess the situation surrounding the
destruction of the Nord Streams after
the end of the Danish and Swedish investigations.
We, as befits conscientious authors, have worked
on our project in an extremely balanced manner.
Throughout the entire negotiation process,
one of the main arguments of a number of
Security Council members was the so-called
prematureness of classifying the Nord
Stream explosion as a terrorist attack.
To our amazement, Western countries
generally turned out to be extremely
uncomfortable with any reference to
the terrorist nature of what happened,
even based on the provisions of the international
instrument to which they are parties, that is,
based on the International Convention for the
Suppression of Terrorist Bombings of 1997.
A logical question arises: how do
our Western colleagues even qualify
what happened, if not as a terrorist attack?
Previously, it seemed to us that this is precisely
the classification of the terrorist attack that
follows from their speeches in the Council.
However, this is not all the surprising things we
encountered while working on the draft statement.
Western colleagues, contrary to facts and
elementary logic, tried to promote laudatory
assessments of Copenhagen and Stockholm
in the project for their supposedly
effective and impartial investigations.
Let me remind you that these are the same
investigations that, within a year, only came to
the conclusion that the gas pipeline was blown up.
At the same time, according to a logic
incomprehensible to us, they tried to remove
from the text any language about the hypothetical
possibility of collective efforts in order to
identify the circumstances of what happened
after the end of the ongoing investigations.
In general, during the entire period of work
on the text, Western colleagues eloquently
exposed and exposed themselves, showing
that they are absolutely not interested
in those responsible for undermining the
Nord Streams being found and punished.
There are no other explanations
for their behavior.
With this understanding, we considered it
absolutely pointless to further work on the draft
statement of the Chairman of the Security Council.
I want to announce this at our meeting today.
We hope that this unpleasant situation has
become for our colleagues from the countries
of the Global South a clear illustration of the
true intentions of Western delegations in relation
to the terrorist attacks on Nord Streams.
All they need is to keep this topic out
of the focus of the Security Council and cover up
their allies who do not provide the international
community with any useful information,
and also refuse to cooperate with Russia,
as provided for, in particular, by Article
10 of the International Convention for the
Suppression of Terrorist Bombings.
In this regard, I also want to note
that all requests from the Russian competent
authorities for cooperation in the framework
of the investigation of the terrorist attack on
Nord Streams to their colleagues from European
countries conducting investigative actions
were consistently and pointedly ignored.
If we received any answers, they were
nothing more than formal replies.
We distributed copies of the relevant
correspondence in 2023 to the Security
Council, all colleagues can verify this.
Taking into account this unacceptable situation,
on March 21 and 22, 2024, the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
sent notes to the embassies of Denmark, Germany,
Sweden and Switzerland in Moscow in connection
with the failure of these states to fulfill
their obligations under the International
Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist
Bombings and the International Convention on
combating the financing of terrorism.
These notes stated the existence of a
dispute between our country and these states in
the context of these international instruments,
and they contained a request for negotiations
on their interpretation and application.
Copies of these notes were also sent by us for
distribution as official documents of the Security
Council and the UN General Assembly.
Mister Chairman.
I urge all colleagues today to ask the
question: how can we explain a situation
in which a state or group of states verbally
condemns the crimes committed, but at the same
time they in every possible way resist the
common efforts to identify the perpetrators?
Any sane person would have suspicions
of dishonesty, of a double game.
This suspicion is especially strengthened if we
remember that politicians from these states before
this crime called for its commission, and after
it was committed, they rejoiced at this fact.
We have all heard and seen these statements
from senior American officials and their allies.
And then the United States and its allies
engaged in a coordinated campaign to
spread absurd and sometimes contradictory
versions of what happened in Western media.
After my speech, I foresee indignant cries
from our American colleagues about how dare
we blame the United States and its allies.
If this is true, then maybe you will take
the trouble to somehow explain
everything that is happening?
Explain your leaders’ confession and demonstrative
sabotage of international investigative efforts.
Moreover, you need to explain this in such a way
that you do not sound like the mad hatter from
Alice in Wonderland, but so that you sound
like representatives of a state that is a
permanent member of the Security Council.
It is symptomatic that the private sector
has recently joined the ridiculous narrative of
the Western political and media establishment.
As it became known from the media, insurance
companies Lloyd’s of London and Arch Insurance
are refusing to pay compensation to the gas
pipeline operator Nord Stream AG due to the
fact that Nord Stream was allegedly
damaged as a result of hostilities.
It would be extremely interesting to know:
what kind of armed conflict is taking place
in the area of the island of Bornholm in the
exclusive economic zone of Denmark and Sweden?
And do these states themselves know about this?
Moreover, the insurers themselves conclude that
the gas pipelines were blown up using an explosive
device, maliciously and for political reasons,
thereby confirming its terrorist nature.
Mister Chairman.
We have no doubt that during today’s meeting,
Western colleagues will continue to equally
absurdly and self-exposingly praise the Danish and
Swedish authorities, who wasted a year and a half,
and also defend the German investigation,
the results of which the international
community still knows nothing about.
They will continue to talk about the
lack of added value in international efforts.
Their goals are clear: it is to endlessly write
this tale of lost time in the hope that the
international community will forget about
this terrorist attack.
However, no one will
forget about this, especially us.
If the narrative of Western countries
previously looked unconvincing, now their
arguments are simply impossible to take seriously.
We have no doubt that this is understood
by a growing number of Member States.
Moreover, we all see perfectly well that
if they need it, the United States and its
allies do not hesitate to investigate.
Suffice it to recall the damage to the
Balticconnector gas pipeline connecting
Finland and Estonia and the communication
cable on October 8, 2023, the interim
conclusions of the investigation of
which were made public ten days later.
Or, there is an even more recent example.
Even without having any data from the
investigation into the terrorist attack
in Crocus City Hall near Moscow, which occurred
a month ago, the United States and its allies,
contrary to objective facts, came
to the conclusion within 24 hours
that the Kiev regime had nothing to do with it.
They tried, and they are still trying, to convince
us that ISIS was involved in this attack.
This is magic.
Here they were able to quickly conduct
an investigation, but in the situation
with Nord Streams, they not only cannot,
but also prevent others from doing this.
I wonder if Washington realizes
how absurd this all looks?
Or are they seriously taking the
rest of the whole world for fools?
Be that as it may, we want to once again
emphasize that the Russian Federation and
other constructively minded states will not
allow this topic to be allowed to slide.
If Denmark and Sweden have already
formally admitted their own impotence,
and Germany does not report anything to anyone
about the progress of the investigation, if it
is being conducted at all, then it should already
be obvious to everyone that the true circumstances
of what happened can be established only through
the cooperation of the international community.
Moreover, despite the efforts of
a number of countries, led by the
United States, to hide their ends in the water.
If we do not do this, we will find ourselves in
a world without rules and rule of law, in which
any other state could be the next victim of a
terrorist attack against critical transnational
pipeline infrastructure carried out by the
proponents of the rules-based order we know.
I want to assure you that no matter how hard the
perpetrators try, they will not escape the answer.
Our country will continue to use all the tools
at our disposal for these purposes.
We call on all sensible states that
are not involved in the terrorist attack against
Nord Streams to support these efforts and together
give a firm and unambiguous signal about
the inadmissibility of terrorist attacks on
cross-border undersea pipeline infrastructure.
Rules-based order must be countered by
international law.
Thank you.
No one is going to identify the culprits and bring them to justice!
Russia’s official representative to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, Vasily Nebenzya, spoke about the progress of the investigation into the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
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22 Comments
Greatest act of environmental terrorism since the Iraq war(s)
USA and UK have finger prints at the scene having UN investigation is like ceaser investigating ceaser nothing will happen but follow USA dialogue, sadly everyone knows the reality as it takes specialist ability to carry this out few nations have capability….. certainly not terrorist. Shame on USA….
AI shite
The whole free world stand with Russia 🇷🇺🇷🇺
It's going nowhere and you can do nothing about it anyway except Whine like a Child. Keep your pipes out of Western Waters. The West has DeRussified. Wemare over the Orchs of the East 😂
Olaf Scholz stood next to Joe Biden as Biden declared the US will commit this terrorist attack. Scholz eagerly promised to do everything he a can to help.
I wonder if there is a legal term for a Leader helping a hostile nation to destroy his country …
a real man!
J'aimerais que la Russie envoie à la minute et secondes ce commentaire droit dans certains News provenant sur toutes les chaînes des journaux télévisés de la Grèce et surtout sur certaines chaînes aussi a Rome que le Pape Jean jean-Paul 2 connaissent toutes vérité de c'est problème de certains pays de l'Europe Occidentale et de l'Amérique aussi. 🇷🇺🇧🇾🇬🇷🇹🇷🇨🇳🇮🇳🇨🇬🇵🇸🇨🇩🌎❤❤🤙🏽🕊
As an Australian a lot of my colleagues believe in a fair go, Russia certainly is not getting a fair go. This Nord stream and majority of propaganda out Ukraine is that off and wrong that the arrogance western leaders do not realise that their people are losing confidence in their leadership. I certainly will not fight Russia nor have my son fight when the West and especially USA and Uk are acting criminally….. and instigating a fight that should never have escalated to where we are today NATO and USA are clearly acting in self interest wanting war….not of the people.
This terrorist attack was a declaration of war by the USA, Denmark and Sweden against Germany, Russia and the EU.
We must activate immediately article 5 of NATO and the defense promise of the EU against this war of aggression!
Germany approved the attack and americans did it. Norway, Sweden and Denmark all together assisted them. All EU members knew who carried out this crime against their own citizens yet they chose to be silent. Let european people pay the price in terms of increased living costs. After all they earned this by remaining silent instead of protesting when all their governments were participating this treacherous act against themselves.
The fact that the US knew who was behind the terrorist attack in Russia nearly instantly but still pretend like they don't know who did the Nordstream 2 bombings says it all. The US has become an empire of lies who's made the truth it's enemy. I think it will suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union if not worse.
Russia has awesome representatives.Great communicators.I as a citizen of europe,to see the people responsable for these crimes brought to justice.
The Russian diplomats in the UN are getting better day by day.
If the West can be trusted, that be the day of the second coming……its their natural instinct to lie, has always lie and will always lie…
It was Biden and he even sad so.
The west has been taken over by idiots.
But the WEF is to blame for all and everything that's goes wrong
Teather of absurdities! How precisely Nebenzya described the EU and UN assemblies.
I would like to see Trump come clean on this issue if he is elected. It would ensure that the Democrats were never elected again.
The World and his wife know that Nord Stream was destroyed by the United States.
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An endless amount of patience is required to prove that a narcissist is a liar… it seems Russia has the patience. ✌🏼
The USNATO did it. The ENTIRE WORLD knows it. USNATO don't care at all…
Corruption at it's finest.