How has the investigation into the Nord Stream explosions progressed?! Nebenzya, Russia

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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