Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki at the UN Security
Council meeting on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Colleagues, the UK condemns acts of sabotage on critical national
infrastructure. We should treat the sabotage of the Nord Stream
pipelines with utmost seriousness.
The international community is concerned about this act, and
wants clear answers about what happened and who was responsible.
As we have said before, the best way to get those answers is to
support the impartial investigations of Denmark, Sweden, and
Germany and to respect those processes.
We do not believe it is a good use of our time for the Security
Council to start to prejudge the outcome of these investigations,
dictate how they are conducted, or otherwise undermine them.
We welcome the latest update sent by Germany on behalf of Denmark
and Sweden, and their commitment to updating the Security
Council. Their letter underlines the complexity of ongoing
investigations and underscores that this process will take time.
We are confident that when these investigations conclude, their
findings will be authoritative.
We, and fellow Council members, should continue to offer full
support to these investigations so that we can establish who was
responsible for these acts of sabotage.
Finally, we must note Russia’s inconsistent attitude towards
civilian infrastructure. They claim outrage here, but are
pursuing a systematic campaign to target civilian infrastructure
in their war of aggression against Ukraine, killing thousands of
civilians in the process. Such hypocrisy should not surprise us,
but it makes it hard to take anything the Russians say on this
subject at face value.
