MOSCOW. Feb 14 (Interfax) - The State Duma plans to ask the United Nations to conduct an urgent international investigation into the Nord Streams incident in the Baltic Sea.
The relevant draft address was published in the legislative database of the lower house of parliament on Tuesday.
In the draft document, its authors refer to the findings of the investigation conducted by U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh, which published on February 8, 2023, on the commission of "a criminal attack by the United States military and its Norwegian accomplices on three branches of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea."
"The administration of [U.S. President] Joe Biden, who gave the illegal order, bears full responsibility both for causing multibillion-dollar damage to the owners of the most important energy infrastructure for the Eurasian continent of Russia, Germany, France and the Netherlands, and for the long-term detrimental impact of this attack on the economic development of the countries in the region as a whole, as well as for disastrous environmental damage," the draft address reads.
The lawmakers believe that this "should become an occasion for a thorough international investigation, holding those responsible accountable and providing a compensation for the damage caused."
In this regard, the Duma deputies turn to the UN "with a proposal to initiate an investigation into this act of international terrorism and give a legal assessment of this monstrous act of sabotage and bring to justice those who ordered and perpetrated this crime that endangered the security of Eurasia."
The Duma is expected to consider this draft address at its session on February 16.