NEW YORK, February 15. /TASS/. American journalist Seymour Hersh, who published a journalistic investigation about the United States’ responsibility for explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline system, is not planning to address the UN Security Council session, which Russia requested for February 22, he told TASS on Wednesday.

"I don’t do anything with the government, government or anybody else’s government," - he said when asked by TASS if he had received an invitation to speak at the session.

Hersh said that he does not plan any other public speeches, for example at the United States Congress.

"I don’t go to Congress. I don’t speak to Congress. If I have an offer. It’s just standing. I don’t speak to Congress," - he added.

According to Hersh’s article published on February 8, explosives were planted under the Russian Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines by US Navy divers with assistance from Norwegian specialists under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 exercise last June. The story cited an unidentified source as saying that US President Joe Biden personally authorized the operation after nine months of discussions with administration officials in charge of security matters.

Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the National Security Council at the White House told TASS, replying to the news agency’s question, that the Hersh story was totally false and complete fiction.