Macron Urges EU To Launch Coordinated Action To Ensure Underwater Gas Pipelines Security

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he has proposed the EU countries to conduct a coordinated operation to ensure the security of key gas infrastructure in the North and Baltic Seas

PRAGUE (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 07th October, 2022) French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he has proposed the EU countries to conduct a coordinated operation to ensure the security of key gas infrastructure in the North and Baltic Seas.

"We have proposed to a number of countries with gas infrastructure in the North and Baltic Seas to start a coordinated operation, which we are doing regularly, to ensure infrastructure security, as well as to establish more frequent monitoring of it," Macron said during a press conference after the Informal EU 27 Summit and Meeting within the European Political Community in Prague.

On September 26, a rapid gas pressure drop and leakage were registered on three pipelines in the Nord Stream network that runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. On September 29, the Swedish Coast Guard said it had discovered a fourth gas leak on the damaged pipelines. According to Sweden, Germany and Denmark, the incidents could be a result of sabotage. The operator, Nord Stream AG, said it was impossible to estimate a time frame for repair work.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has been investigating the pipeline incidents as acts of international terrorism.