Finnish President Alexander Stubb will host a summit in Helsinki of the NATO nations that border the Baltic Sea along with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal subsequent Tuesday.
The summit, which is able to happen on the Presidential Palace, will probably be attended by NATO Secretary Normal Mark Rutte in addition to leaders from Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden.
The subject would be the safety of the Baltic Sea area, particularly measures required to safe the essential underwater infrastructure, the Finnish presidency stated in a press release on Wednesday.
The dialogue will concentrate on strengthening NATO’s presence within the Baltic Sea and responding to the risk posed by Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of ships.
The summit is a response to a sequence of incidents through which pipelines and cables within the Baltic Sea have been broken by vessels allegedly linked to Russia.
On Christmas Day, harm was found on the Estlink 2 energy cable between Finland and Estonia, in addition to on 4 communication cables, together with a connection between Helsinki and Rostock that had already been severed in a earlier incident in November.
The oil tanker Eagle S is suspected of getting intentionally precipitated the harm on Christmas Day.
The ship was flying the flag of the Prepare dinner Islands, however in line with the EU it belongs to the Russian shadow fleet.
This refers to tankers and different cargo ships that Russia makes use of to avoid sanctions imposed because of its invasion of Ukraine, for instance when transporting oil.
