ah, with i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty, but the country will not abandon the pot, the last surviving agreement on nuclear disarmament between russia, the law, the mayor made the remarks during his annual address to the russian parliament on a new report from beijing lays i'd want a cold stepped, heralds of us had gemini painting, a picture of the lands, washington goes to achieve division of global democracy and also with relations between russia and china. a rock solid jealous top diplomat gives our bringing endorsement. it ties between beijing and moscow. nothing continues. is

european tour with talks in depression with 11 pm here in moscow. this is our t international, straight to our top story. russia has suspended its participation in the new star nuclear treaty, but it is not the parting from the agreement. that is one florida we are put in said earlier in his annual address to the national parliament, but they would signal up us would. you would need a representatives. the u. s. is sending signals and putting out ultimatums to russia. they say you russia must implicitly do as we have previously agreed to, including the new start treaty. while we the us, or do whatever we want to us. they say there's no connection between the new start treaty issues and the ukranian conflict or other hostile actions by the west

towards russia is as if there is no loud statement that the u. s. aim is defeating russia. strategically, certainly. so it's either utmost cynicism and hypocrisy or utmost stupidity. we can't call them idiots though. they're not stupid. they wanted to feed us strategically and also want to continue to inspect our new killer objects. in this regard, i have to say that manners that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty. the with you and out of a suspension of new start can be reversed according to russia's foreign ministry. moscow say the u. s. d escalation in its aggressive global snouts would quote, create the conditions for the pack to fully function. russia also states and still intends to follow the timeline on weapons reduction set out in the bilateral agreement. but that checks on stockpiles would not be allotted. just a reminder, the nucular limitation packed between moscow and washington was signed in 2010.

it's set to expire in 3 years. the treaty sets limits on both countries, strategic arsenalt and includes on site inspections to verify complaints. rushes moved to suspend its participation, came after vladimir putin accused, the west of being directly involved in attacks on russian, strategic or bases louisiana. we know that the west is directly complicit in kiev regimes attempts to strike to pieces of our strategic evasion. drones used for that were equipped and modernized with the help of natal specialist at least western elite cannot ignore the fact that it is impossible to defeat rush on the battlefield. they intend to transform a local conflict into a phase of global confrontation. this is exactly how we understand this, and we will respond accordingly. when you mind the president's speech went on for almost 2 hours. and now 45 minutes, it was given before the cream of russia's elite,

the biggest revelation was left until almost the end than that is russia, suspending its participation? very important distinction. not a not pulling out of but rather suspending its participation in the start nuclear arms reduction and control treaty between it in the united states that has been in effect since 2010 vladimir putin here cited various reasons for it. and that, primarily one of the most important reasons is that it has simply lost power. for example, russian inspections, which are written into the, into the start treaty, russian inspectors are denied inspections in the united states. for all manner of reasons, there is, ah, carry inter up that report because a special session of the un security council call by russia has just begun in new

york. it's focusing on september attack on the nord stream pipelines. moscow has submitted a draft resolution calling for the creation of an independent international commission to investigate the under c blast. let's listen sustainable development. earth institute, that's columbia university and mr. rein. mcgovern bullet's, collectivist. it's a so decided the security council will now begin it's consideration of item 2 of the agenda. i now give the floor to miss rosemary, the cargo. thank you mister president. i'm 30 september last year assistant secretary general for economic development at the department of economic and social affairs naveed honey brief, this council on the reported links and the north stream pipelines. his briefing was based on information and data from publicly available sources. my briefing today is

also based on publicly available information that we have to date. as assistant tech secretary, general honeys said in september, in the course of $26.00 to 29, september 20. 22 for leaks were detected and the north stream under sea pipelines in the baltic sea, near the island of bonham. the 1st lake was reported on the north stream to pipeline in the morning of 26 september. when say a small adjust detected a spike in activity. the 2nd and 3rd leaks were reported in the evening of 26 september on the north stream one pipeline. a 4th leak was reported the morning of 29 september on the nordstrom to pipeline. neither pipeline was in operation supplies in north stream. one had been halted in september while

nordstrom to never entered service. however, the pipelines reportedly held several 100000000 cubic meters of national natural gas at the time of the incidence. following the incidence, danish, german and swedish officials announced they would launch separate investigations into the leaks. the russian federation expressed interest in joining these investigations while also expressing concern that a deliberate act of sabotage and terrorism might be to blame for the explosions that caused the leaks. on 18 october, copenhagen police reported that a preliminary investigation into the leaks found that powerful explosions caused the damage a month later, on 18 november. the swedish security service and prosecution authority reported that, according to their preliminary findings, the pipelines had been subject to gross sabotaged. swedish officials stated that in

the next best negations carried out on site in the baltic sea investigators documented extensive damage to the gas pipelines resulted from detonations. swedish authorities also said they had seized foreign items, and that explosive residue was identified on a number of those items. according to officials quoted in local media, the investigation is ongoing. on for february 2023, the german attorney general stated that their investigation was also continuing. we understand that the danish investigation is continuing as well. further, we are aware of new reports alleging acts of sabotage involving the 2 pipelines. i reiterate that the united nations is not in a position to verify or confirm any of the claims relating to these incidents,

and that we await the findings of the ongoing national investigations given the sensitivity and speculation regarding this issue, we urge all concerned to show restraint and in void any situation, we should avoid any unfounded accusations that could further escalate. he already heightened tensions in the region and potentially inhibit the search of a truth. and while we exact we don't know exactly what happened beneath the waters of the baltic sea in september 20 through. one thing is certain, whatever cause the incident is follow counts among the many risks the invasion of ukraine has unleashed one year since the start of the war. we must redouble our efforts to end it in line with international law and the un charter. thank you mr. president, i thank miss decarlo for her briefing,

and i now give the floor to mister jeffrey sex. thank you very much. my name is jeffery fat. i am a university professor at columbia university. i'm a specialist in the global economy, including global trade finance infrastructure and economic stayed craft, appeared before the un security council on my own behalf. i represent no government organization in the testimony that i will deliver to destruction of the nor screen pipelines on september 26th, 2022 constitutes an act of international terrorism and represents a threat to the peace. it is the responsibility of the un security council to take up the question of who might have carried out the act in order to bring the perpetrator to international justice to pursue compensation for the damage parties, and to prevent future such actions. the consequences of the destruction of the

north stream pipelines are in armis. they include not only the vast economic losses related to the pipelines themselves and their future potential use, but also the threat to trans boundary infrastructure of all kinds submarine, internet cables, international pipelines for gas and hydrogen, trans foundry power transmission, offshore wind farms and more. the global transformation to green energy will require considerable trans foundry infrastructure, including an international waters. countries need to have full confidence that their infrastructure will not be destroyed by 3rd parties. some european countries have recently express concern over the safety of their offshore infrastructure. for all of the reasons, the investigation by the un security council of the north screen explosions is a high and global priority. the destruction of the north stream pipelines required

a very high degree of planning, expertise, and technological capacity. the nord stream to pipelines are a marvel of engineering. each section of pilot is roll to steel of $4.00 centimeters. that is in with a pipeline internal diameter, 1.15 meters. the pipe is encased in concrete of $10.00 centimeters, thickness. weight of each section of concrete in case pipe is $24.00 metric tons. the north stream to pipelines. some 1200 kilometers in length contained around 200000 pipes. the pipeline sit on the sea floor destroying a pipeline, a heavy, rolled steel encased in concrete. at depths of 79 meters requires a highly advanced technology for transportation of the explosives. diving to install the explosives and that nation to do so,

i'm detected in the exclusive economic zones of denmark and sweden adds greatly to the complexity of the operation. if a number of senior officials have publicly confirmed, an action of this sort must have been carried out by a state level. after only a handful of state level actors have both the technical capacity and access to the baltic sea. to have carried out this action clued the united states, russia, the united kingdom, poland, norway, germany, denmark, and sweden. either individually or in some combination. ukraine lacks the necessary technologies as well as access to the baltic sea. a recent report by the washington post reveal that the intelligence agencies of the nato countries have privately concluded, that there is no evidence whatsoever that russia carried out. this action is also

comports with the fact that russia had no obvious motive to carry out this act of terrorism on its own critical infrastructure. indeed, russia is likely to bear considerable expenses to repair the pipelines. 3 countries have reportedly carried out investigations of the nord stream, terrorism, denmark, germany and sweden. these countries presumably know much more about the circumstances of the terrorist attack. sweden, in particular, has perhaps the most to tell the world about the crime scene which its divers investigated. yet instead of sharing this information globally suite has kept the results of the investigation secret from the rest of the world. sweden has refused to shirts. findings with russia and turn down a joint investigation with that mark in germany. in the interest of global peace, un security council should require these countries to mediately turn over the

results of their investigations to the un security council. there was only one detailed account, the date of the norm stream destruction. the one recently put forward by investigative journalist seymour hersh, sensibly based on information, least by hers, by a non name source pers attributes the north stream destruction to a decision ordered by us president joe biden. and kept out by us agents in a covert operation that hers describes in detail. the white house has described hers this account as quote, completely and utterly false, unquote. but did not that offer any information contradicting hers his account and did not offer any alternative explanation. senior us officials made statements before and after the nord stream destruction that showed us atomists towards the pipelines. on january 27th,

2022 under secretary of state victoria newland tweeted, quote, if russia invade ukraine one way or another, nor stream to will not move forward and quote. and february 7th, president biden said, quote, if prussia invades again and there will be no longer nor string to, we will bring an end to it. and quote, when asked by the reporter, how he wouldn't do that, he responded, quote, i promise you, we will be able to do it. and quote, on september 30th 2022. immediately following the terrorist attack on the pipeline, secretary of state entity blinking declared that the destruction of the pipeline is, quote, also a tremendous opportunity. it's a for members opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence and rushed and energy and thus to take away from vladimir putin. the weapon is ation of energy as

a means of advancing his imperial design and quote. on january 28th, 2023 undersecretary newland declared in testimony to senator ted cruz in the u. s. and that quote, i am and i think the administration is very gratified to know that norm spring too, is now as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea. and quote, such language is not at all appropriate in the face of international terrorism. i hope that the united states, together with all other security council members, will condemn this act of international terrorism and join together in an urgent un security council lead investigation of this international crime. in order to determine the truth. the truth is not yet known by the world,

but it is notable more than ever the world depends on the un security council to do its work to stop the escalation, to a new world war. the world will be safe only when the permanent members work together diplomatically to solve global crises, including the war and ukraine, and the rising tensions in east asia. the un security council provides the unique global and you for that piece affirming work more than ever. we need a healthy functioning un security council carrying out the mission assigned to it by the un charter un security council objective investigation of the nord stream, terrorism, in which all countries contribute what they know. it's important for the global confidence in this bobby, and most importantly for global peace and sustainable development. thank you very much. i thank mister sax for his briefing. i'm going out of the floor to mr raymond

mcgovern. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, i would associate myself completely with professor saxes comments. i do not have a prepared text, and so i was unable to give that to the people who asked me to give it to them. i was asked to do this less than a day ago. know and suggested what i might say. and of course, no one even asked the what i would say. so these are my personal remarks, based on my experience for 27 years as an intelligence analyst. and as an observer, and i notice that i'm called a political activist. well, this is my way of paying back for the education i got as an intelligence analyst in the us intelligence community. now i would say that on my way here

in to airports this morning, i noticed a bunch of children that little children and school age children had made me think back to my days as a school age child. i was one of those who hid under my desk because of the threat of the russian atom bomb as though that would protect me fast forward. when i became a professional analyst and chief of the soviet foreign policy branch had cia. i was able to tell the president and henry kissinger that the russians were really interested in putting a cap on the arms race. suffice it to say i was in for rental in the anti ballistic missile treaty signed in may of 1972. i was there

30 years of strategic stability, 30 count them 3 decades. when mister bush junior decided he would leave the abm treaty without any real explanation. ah, and then mr. trump left the i n f treaty, which i thought could never be concluded because it, it involved the destruction, the destruction of a whole class of nuclear tipped, intermediate range, ballistic missiles in europe and a the siberia. ah. then we had the open skies treaty from which the us left. and now we are warned that the news start is also in danger. i must say that after the anti ballistic missile treaty was signed,

i was feeling you foreign. i need not worry about whether they are building this building just to be demo, demolished by the next nuclear weapon. and it's very sad for me to watch what's going on now where people can't get together and deal for hon. then. that's the german word for negotiate deal. ah, if you look at it, a comes from the word hunt, the hunt, the hunt. you reach out the hunt and you get to know and you get to understand what is bothering you the party. now i don't want to get ahead of myself here. i do wanna talk about st. seymour hersh is an article and i can have to say up front, full disclosure that i am a friend of seymour hersh. and so i will not o pine my shelf. i will cite

a very distinguished former us ambassador and also assistant secretary of defense. these are the words he said about seymour hersh. hersch attracts whistleblowers because he has a perfect record of protecting their identities and accurate billy publishing what they reveal after due diligence. despite the government denials and slanderous attacks that invariably follow his reputation is such that people of conscience, she came out people of conscience as a u. s. army officer. and as a c, i employee, i took an oath. one oath it was to support and defend the constitution of united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. some of us took that old seriously. and when we see this

kind of thing going on, we go to somebody who might be able to protect us and might be able to get the word out. now this was 2 weeks ago as the new york times mentioned, sy hersh his article. ah, hasn't even reported the denials. no, not yet. this is quite the germans would say mac variety dishes for her for her remarkable. now let me go on here and, and talk about her. well, i'm haddaway and how do we evaluate those who are smearing as she mar, hersh? well, as a jeffrey sachs already said that she, i a spokesperson said the claim is completely and utterly false quote. and quote, oh, now i have to confess, being an alumnus of the c i a that are p r people are public relations. people do

not have a very good record. no one wants to go back 20 years to colin powell speech before this security council. we all know about that. what i would like to do is simply say, what happened before that speech? before that speech, some conscientious whistleblower gave the text of a un debriefing of who's seen commended one of saddam hussein's sons in law. and who is he? he was supervisor over the radiological biological chemical and nuclear program such as it was in baghdad. and he said to his interviewers, you at interviewers, you as interviewers, you k, interviewers, he said the following,

all nuclear chemical, biological and missile programs have been destroyed. now they asked him, the interrogators did, well, how do you know? and cml said, oh, i was in charge of them. i mean, i don't know how it works in your country, but when i order something destroyed it gets destroyed. yeah. how do you know, did you check? well yeah, i checked the couple. are you trying to get me to say they were not destroyed? this is 1995. now someone leaked. some leaks that transcript to newsweek. newsweek on the 24th, almost exactly 20 years ago. newsweek published this report saying, who st. carmel the highest ranking? iraqi official ever to defect from saddam hussein's inner circle toll

a cia and british intelligence offices and new as for inspectors. in the autumn of 1995, that after the gulf war, iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons. and the missiles to deliver them. carmel had direct knowledge of what he claimed for 10 years. he ran you rocks, nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programs. and in a classic understatement of the author, john barry in newsweek says on the defectors tail raises questions about whether the w m. d stockpiles attributed to iraq still exist. well, i guess what happened news week publish it, a little blurb. first on there are in their site their website. then

the members of the media went to a fellow named bill harlow, who was c, i a p r person, cia spoke to person poor the agency and he said, look at these ah, this, this report is incorrect. it's bogus, it's wrong. and it's untrue. oh, incorrect, bogus wrong and untrue. and what did the members of the presto? they breathed a sigh relief and said, i'm sure glad you. you tell us that because we're, we're going to publish and i look pretty documentary. it looked pretty authoritative. it was indeed the transcript of that they briefing. now it just the word about those who are smearing sy hersh. they don't have

a really good record for credibility. let me move on here. i'd like to talk a little bit about unprovoked. now we have heard more than a 100 times that the russian invasion of ukraine was unprovoked. this goes back to the widening of nato despite the promised night too. and i had a personal, a personal experience with one of going about shots, chief advisors. his name is cove iden, victor, but he savage and about 8 years i saw him in moscow and i said, victor, i had said mr cove i did in why is it, why is it that this this agreement was not written down? and he said, mr. mcgovern,

i'll tell you the usual reasons that the germans hadn't bought into it yet, and the wash or pack still existed, but really and truly missed them. however, here's what it was. we trusted you now more than one inch to the east. i want to not belabor that point, it's simply that you know, it's more than just nato enlargement out when the crimea was annexed by russia at mr. approaching got up a month later and he said we had to annex crimea.