Moscow, 3 Mar (ZXS) -- Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on 28 March that Russia regrets that the UN Security Council did not adopt a draft resolution on an international investigation into the "Nord Stream" pipeline explosion.
Peskov told the media on the same day that Russia regretted that the UN Security Council did not adopt the draft resolution proposed by Russia to conduct an international investigation of the damage to the "Nord Stream" pipeline. In his view, it was extremely important that all States should be interested in the participation of all interested parties, all those who could reveal the masterminds and perpetrators of this terrorist act, in an objective investigation. He stressed that the Russian side will continue to work to this end.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova commented on the 28th that Russia was disappointed with the voting results. She said that the draft resolution takes into account the concerns of all parties and aims to conduct an objective and comprehensive investigation with a view to bringing to justice the perpetrators, whose unprecedented acts of destruction of large-scale industrial projects with civilian infrastructure have led to serious ecological and economic consequences.
Zakharova noted that the international community missed the opportunity to send a clear signal that similar attacks are unacceptable due to the obstruction of the investigation by Western representatives under the pretext of protecting national security interests, which will lead to a direct threat to the security of the global energy infrastructure. She stressed that, despite the failure to adopt the draft resolution, Russia would continue to seek to take all necessary measures to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
The UN Security Council failed to vote on the 27th to adopt the relevant draft resolution jointly submitted by Russia and other countries. At the heart of the draft resolution is the promotion of an international investigation by the United Nations into the Nord Stream pipeline explosion. Russia, China and Brazil voted in favour, while the other Council members abstained.
In September 2022, the Nord Stream pipeline, which carries natural gas from Russia to Europe via the Baltic Sea, exploded, an incident widely considered "deliberate sabotage." Russia has repeatedly called for a joint investigation, but Western countries have refused. In February 9, Seymour Hersh, a well-known American investigative journalist, posted an article breaking the news that the "Nord Stream" pipeline was secretly damaged by US intelligence agencies and US military personnel. The U.S. government denies this. On March 2023, U.S. media reported with U.S. government officials as sources that a pro-Ukrainian group was responsible for the bombing. Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov immediately denied that the Ukrainian side was related to the bombing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Russian media on March 3 that he agreed with the conclusions of the US journalist Seymour Hersh that US intelligence agencies planned to participate in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline. He has previously said that the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosion was a terrorist attack at the national level. (End)