Dmitry Polyanskiy (Russia) On the situation in…

We have raised under AOB (“any other business”) the question of investigation of the sabotage of Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2. We drew attention of our colleagues in the Security Council to the fact that the so-called national investigations conducted by Sweden, Germany and Denmark are not moving forward. In fact, what we see is just moving around in circles, some kind of pretension that Russia is aware of what is happening, which is totally false. You know that we distributed a document in the Security Council – the compilation of letters that we exchanged with the authorities of Germany, Sweden and Denmark. There were also certain awkward acknowledgments, notably by Swedish Prosecutor General that Russia is not aware of any details of the investigation. And that falls in the line of what we claim in the Security Council.

We stressed that this situation is absolutely intolerable for my country, that my country will do its best to pursue this cause. We will seek an international investigation and a punishment for those who are behind this crime. It is inadmissible that perpetrators of such a heinous crime, which directly affects international peace and security, are not yet identified and prosecuted. In a nutshell, that was what we said during the consultations.