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Lithuanian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the units of the Russian Navy during exercises in the Baltic repeatedly attempted to interfere with NordBalt cable installation.
– We believe that the Russian navy violates the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and hinders economic activity. Their exercises interfere in our work. We have moved to Russia three scores protest at not received any response – told AFP the head of the Lithuanian diplomacy Linas Linkeviczius.
Russian warships violate Zone
According to the Lithuanian national operator of the transmission network schemes LitGrid Russian ships forced on Thursday to change his place of residence Lithuanian ship to protect the zone in which the cable is laid. Schemes LitGrid reported that already had two similar cases.
Sweden supported the protest of Lithuania
On Thursday Sweden supported the protest of Lithuania to Russia. Pezhman the Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesman told the news agency BNS Fivrin the Stockholm treats the behavior of the Russians as a violation of international law.
– Sweden is in contact with the Russian authorities, who said that there was a breach of international law. We support in this matter Lithuania – he said. He added that the aim of the Russian Navy is to prevent the cable position NordBalt.
The 400-kilometer submarine cable system will connect the Lithuanian power grid networks Scandinavian countries. It leads from the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda to Nybro in Sweden. Its cost is estimated at 550 million euros; the connection should work in December this year.
The Thursday incident took place two days after the observation in Finnish territorial waters near Helsinki “an unidentified underwater object”. The Finnish armed forces fired on Tuesday in the direction of a suspicious warning unit depth charges.
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