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The location of the leak on the Nord Stream gas pipeline. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 6The reluctance to allow the owner of Nord Stream to investigate the attacks suggests that certain countries have something to hide, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. The UN Security Council, Zakharova stressed that all participants in the meeting «recognized the fact of deliberate sabotage and unanimously supported the need for a transparent international investigation of what happened.»Zakharova urged the EU to recognize the truth about the state of emergency at Nord Stream «On the one hand, this is a constructive unity, but then something started to fail again … Do not let the owner, not even just an investor, the Russian Federation is the owner of the equipment, infrastructure and the resource itself , which is being pumped, not allowing the owner to investigate means hiding something from him,» the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted. «Official Copenhagen proceeds from the fact that this incident is not an accident, but the result of deliberate actions and considers it necessary to conduct an international investigation this incident. At the same time, according to the Foreign Minister, Denmark does not intend to conduct a dialogue with Moscow on this issue,» Zakharova said at a briefing. «This can only be explained in one way: they may know who did it, so Moscow's opinion just not interested, because the suspect has already been identified, and we can already bring him to justice,” she added. We regard the actions to damage gas pipelines as a deliberate sabotage against the most important infrastructure of the Russian Federation and we will seek a comprehensive open investigation with the participation of representatives of the Russian competent departments and, of course, Gazprom,» Zakharova said. «Only if this condition is met, its results can claim to be reliable and objectivity. If the West will «as always» — the non-admission of owners, the concealment of facts and the emphasis will be placed on the media and on the manipulation of data through the media in the form of leaks, then it is clear where all this investigation will lead — it will lead to nothing, «the official noted. representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The attacks occurred on September 26 simultaneously on two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe — Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2. Nord Stream AG, the operator of Nord Stream, reported that the emergency on gas pipelines was unprecedented and it was impossible to estimate the timing of repairs. On October 3, Gazprom announced that the pressure in the damaged Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines had stabilized, gas leaks had stopped, and gas was being pumped out of another Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to check its integrity. In turn, the Swedish coastal security that day stated that the “smaller” leak from Nord Stream 2 was continuing and even slightly increasing. international terrorism after the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod announced the government's determination to refuse Russia's participation in the investigation of the sabotage and the identification of those responsible. investigations on Nord Stream