UNITED NATIONS, February 10. /TASS/. It is impossible to resolve pressing international issues without Russia’s participation and this is obvious to everyone, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said in an interview with TASS.

"We are asked to continue to play an active mediating role in resolving all ‘hot’ international issues. It is obvious to everyone that they cannot be settled without Russia. So we keep telling the truth, propose fair solutions using the opportunities provided by the UN venue," he said.

Meanwhile, Western representatives at such meetings "time and again reiterate the same," the diplomat asserted. "They really have nothing to say, including to the population of their own countries. Since all attempts to suppress and conquer Russia, deliver a strategic defeat, have hit a dead end," he explained.

The issue of sabotage at the Nord Stream gas pipelines remains on the agenda of the UN Security Council and the West won’t be able to sweep the matter under the rug, added Nebenzya/

"The issue of the terror attack against the Nord Stream pipelines has not disappeared from the agenda of the UNSC, no matter how much our Western colleagues would like to drop the subject," he said.

The Russian diplomat noted that Western countries used to sabotage the discussion of this topic in various ways in the past. "This is precisely why we plan on keeping the Security Council’s attention focused on it, trying to get a clear reaction," he said.

On September 27, 2022, Nord Stream AG reported unprecedented damage that occurred the day before on three strings of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipelines. On September 26, 2022, Swedish seismologists registered two explosions on the pipeline routes. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office launched a criminal case in connection with the incident based on charges of international terrorism.

On February 8, 2023, US Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article claiming, citing anonymous sources, that US Navy divers had planted explosive devices under the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines under the cover of the BALTOPS naval exercise in June 2022, and that the Norwegians then activated the bombs three months later. According to the journalist, the decision to conduct the operation was made by US President Joe Biden personally, following nine months of discussions with White House national security advisers.