The US government has reiterated that Russia is lying about alleged US responsibility for the explosions that took place on the Nord Stream gas pipeline, after the Kremlin called for a meeting of the UN Security Council following the publication of a new investigation.
The US State Department spokesman, Ned Price, has indicated that what Moscow says «is nothing but a lie»: «It is pure disinformation that the United States was behind what happened with Nord Stream 2», he remarked.
«This is the message that we have consistently conveyed in the face of these lies that have been parroted by Russian officials, and we will convey it again if necessary in any forum,» Price said.
Asked whether the United Nations should play a role in the investigation of the incident, the spokesman pointed out that «this explosion did not occur on U.S. soil,» so the partners, where the explosion occurred, are the ones who should «talk about the appropriate investigative mechanisms.»
Russia’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polianski, announced Wednesday that Moscow had requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on February 22 to address the Nord Stream pipeline explosions last September.
In a message launched on his official Telegram channel, Polianski has detailed that the meeting has been requested «in light of new information on the pipeline detonation», thus alluding to the investigation published by journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, which pointed directly to the United States of being behind the sabotage.
According to Hersh, U.S. Navy divers would have been responsible for the alleged sabotage, as they would have placed explosives during the Atlantic Alliance’s ‘Baltops 22’ maneuvers. «Three months later, they destroyed three of the four branches of the pipeline,» the journalist said.
Last September 26, Nord Stream 2 AG, operator of the Russian pipeline of the same name, announced a gas leak for unknown reasons in one of the two pipelines of the infrastructure near the Danish island of Bornholm. Subsequently, two branches of the parallel Nord Stream 1 pipeline were also damaged.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
