The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) has warned about the vulnerability of the Nord Stream pipeline to attack for well over a decade.
Mikael Odenberg, who served as Swedish Minister of Defense when the report was released in 2007, stated that while Sweden was against the construction of the pipeline it had no recourse to stop it saying, “The government’s assessment was that the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea gave the Russians the right to build that cursed pipeline. Even though I had objections, there was no room to question the lawyers.
Sweden, along with many other countries and various experts, have pointed to deliberate sabotage for the new four-known gas leaks that were discovered earlier this week in both the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, but few have outright blamed anyone for the alleged attack. Outgoing Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde stated this week, “What we can establish is that it is a matter of probable sabotage,” and mentioned Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some, including the Ukrainians, have directly
for the alleged sabotage, while the Russians have questioned whether or not the United States may have been behind the incident.
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