MOSCOW, March 9. /TASS/. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his colleagues seek to avoid providing answers about the situation around Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage by any means, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a press conference with his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.
"While such activity is being displayed [by the UN] in regards to the very dubious circumstances and very dubious ideas on demilitarization of the Zaporozhye [nuclear power] station, which have absolutely no perspectives, total passiveness and detachment is seen in another situation, which actually requires active interest from the UN Secretariat," Lavrov said.
"I am talking about the questions that reporters ask the Secretary General and his official representatives about their attitude to the need to investigate the newly emerged outrageous information about how the West describes the terror attack against the Nord Stream pipelines that took place in September last year. Both the Secretary General and his colleagues do everything to avoid providing reaction to these justified questions," the Foreign Minister said.
Lavrov noted that Russia introduced a resolution to the UN Security Council requesting the UN Secretariat to organize an unbiased investigation.
"I believe that those outrageous acts that are currently present in the public sphere, this shameful reaction of Western mass media to these facts that was made in the recent days will not be left without attention; and every conscientious member of the international community must insist on an unbiased objective investigation so that the organizers of this terror attack could not avoid responsibility," he continued. "Meanwhile, trying to explain it all citing Western intelligence agencies that this was done by some Ukrainian oligarch is simply shameful for those who try to promote this version via controlled Western mass media".