The European Union will reinforce the protection of its energy infrastructure after the incidents that caused the gas pipeline leaks North Streamsaid this Wednesday the chief of foreign policy of the bloc, Joseph Borrell.
“All available information indicates that these leaks are the result of a deliberate act,” he said. Borrell it’s a statement.
“We will support any investigation aimed at gaining full clarity on what happened and why and we will take further action to increase our resilience in energy security.”
The European Union considers that the leaks from the two gas pipelines that connect Russia with Germany they are not a “coincidence” and that there are indications that they were a “deliberate act”.
“Any deliberate disruption of Europe‘s energy infrastructure is absolutely unacceptable and will be met with a robust and united response,” he warned in the statement.
The high representative, however, avoided labeling the acts of sabotage, as if they did the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyenand the President of the European Council, Charles Michael.
In a message on his official Twitter account, Von der Leyen said he had spoken on the phone with the prime minister of Denmark, Mette Fredriksen, about “the sabotage action” and that “it is now essential to investigate the incidents” in order to “obtain full clarity about the events and why” they had occurred.
“Any deliberate disruption of active European energy infrastructure is unacceptable and will lead to the strongest possible response,” he said. Von der Leyen.
For his part, Charles Michel denounced that “the acts of sabotage appear to be an attempt to further destabilize the energy supply to the EU”
“We need an urgent and thorough investigation. Those responsible will be fully responsible and liable to pay. Our efforts to diversify the energy supply away from Russian gas continue”, added the Belgian politician.
Like the high officials of the EU, NATO, Russia, USA and Germany They have avoided guessing until they got more information about what happened.
Sweden and Poland have already expressed that the thesis of sabotage is the most probable cause of the leaks from the pipelines in the Baltic Sea and Warsaw pointed out to Russia suggesting that this represents an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.
The operating company of the Nord Stream, Nord Stream AG, indicated during the day on Tuesday that the damage suffered by three of the pipelines late on Monday “is unprecedented”, after a gas leak in one of the sections of the North Stream 2 and a pressure loss in the North Stream 1without the causes being known for now.
During the afternoon of Monday, the Danish authorities detected a gas leak in one of the sections of the gas pipeline North Stream 2 on the Danish island of Bornholm. Hours later, the underwater gas pipeline North Stream 1 detected a drop in the pressure of the gas coming from Russia sent to Germany and that affects the two lines of the duct.
With these statements, the EU joins the suspicions recognized by Norway, Denmark, Poland, Ukraine or the United States about the fact that leaks in the pipeline are the result of acts of sabotage. Swedish seismologists have gone further and confirmed explosions in the area hours before the leaks were confirmed.
Secretary of State for USA, Anthony Blinkenpointed out that, in the event that the leaks recorded in the Nord Stream gas pipeline are the result of sabotage, this fact would be something that “does not benefit anyone”.
“There are initial reports that this may be the result of an attack or some form of sabotage, but these are initial reports and we have not confirmed it yet,” Blinken said. CNN.
However, the highest US diplomatic representative considers that these leaks will not have a “significant impact” on the “energy resilience of Europe”, in part thanks to the joint work carried out on the energy security of the old continent.
(With information from AFP, EFE and Reuters)
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