The agreement of 6 European countries to protect the infrastructure of the North Sea
| 6 Nordic countries with a common border with the North Sea have signed an agreement to protect submarine infrastructure against acts of sabotage. |
report Mehr News Agency, according to the Associated Press, 6 countries located in Northern Europe signed a security cooperation agreement with the aim of protecting the submarine infrastructure in the North Sea from acts of sabotage.
The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Infrastructure of Denmark called the North Sea a hub of critical infrastructure that connects European countries through power cables, gas pipelines and telecommunication connections. and is an important source of renewable energy.
The Ministry’s statement states: Cross-border interdependence and interconnection is increasing day by day, and as a result, the risk of sabotage and unwanted attention of hostile actors is also increasing. It will be.
This agreement was signed while the case of the 2022 explosions in Russia’s Nordstream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea is still open. The explosions occurred in international waters but within the economic zone of Sweden and Denmark. Both countries declared their investigations about those explosions closed.
