Russia requests a meeting of the UN Security Council on the "Nord Stream" leak
Russia will request a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the gas leakage from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, after it called on US President Joe Biden to announce whether the United States was behind the "act of sabotage," the Russian Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday.
"Russia intends to call an official meeting of the UN Security Council in the context of provocations related to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said via the Telegram app.
Shortly before that, the Russian Foreign Ministry called on US President Joe Biden to announce whether the United States was behind this leak.
"The US president is obligated to answer the question whether the United States has carried out its threat," she said on Telegram, referring to a statement Biden made on February 7, i.e. before the Russian war on Ukraine, in which he said, "If Russia invaded (Ukraine) There will be no Nord Stream 2.”
Maria Zakharova said Wednesday that the US president "must be responsible for his words."
"Europe must know the truth," she said, while the causes of the leak, which was detected in Nord Stream 1 and 2, are still unknown.
Earlier, the Kremlin stressed that it was "stupid and absurd" to accuse Russia of being behind this huge leak, after Kyiv condemned a "planned terrorist attack" by Moscow against European countries.
"We see the hysterical reaction of the Poles and the huge profits made by American exporters of liquefied natural gas after they doubled their supplies to the European continent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
According to the Swedish Seismological Institute, two underwater explosions were recorded near the leak sites before they were discovered, but their source is not currently determined.
For its part, the Russian embassy in Denmark denounced Wednesday in a statement "sabotage against energy security in Russia and Europe."
For his part, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stressed that "any deliberate tampering with European energy facilities is totally unacceptable and will be met with a strong and united response."
And the European official added in a statement on behalf of the 27 member states of the European Union, that all the information available at this stage indicates that the leak caused by explosions in these underwater facilities is the result of a “deliberate act.”
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