Sweden has failed to present any proof of unauthorized foreign presence in its territorial waters.
“The operation failed to confirm the type, nationality of form of operation by a foreign country,” the search operation’s commander, Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad, told a news conference on Friday. The operation has cost the treasury €2.2 million. The country’s fire-fighters spend as much during one week to deal with forest fires, Grenstad said.
He addressed vigilant locals with words of thanks for support.
“While the operation proceeded we got 250 e-mails and phone calls from individuals. The mass media were also helpful. As for the results of analysis, I will announce them late, when I know more about what exactly we can say,” he added.
Earlier, Swedish mass media claimed that a Russian submarine might have been responsible for the row. The daily Svenska Dagbladet even claimed the submarine was in distress......................http://en.itar-tass.com/world/756273
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Sweden says 'at least one' vessel operated in its waters ...
ReplyDeleteSweden called off a massive hunt on Friday (Oct 24) for at least one mystery foreign submarine in its waters that had worrying echoes of Cold War stand-offs, after calling the incursion "unacceptable".
The search, which stirred up memories of cat-and-mouse games with suspected Soviet submarines along Sweden's long, rugged coastline before fall of the Berlin Wall, had involved battleships, minesweepers and helicopters as well as more than 200 troops.
"Our assessment is that there was at least one (vessel)," Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad told reporters in Stockholm, saying it had now probably left. It was the first time the Swedish armed forces suggested that more than one vessel might have been operating in the Stockholm archipelago, whose 30,000 islands, islets and rocks make the area notoriously hard to patrol.
"It's the assessment of the defence forces that probably foreign underwater activity has taken place in Stockholm's inner archipelago," Grenstad said, calling any foreign activity within Swedish territory "unacceptable"..............http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/sweden-says-at-least-one/1433704.html
24/10/14
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has not contacted Moscow via diplomatic channels over the situation with a submarine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday....
ReplyDeleteLavrov told Vesti v Subbotu programme on the Rossiya-1 TV channel that he had no idea what submarine was spotted off the coast of Sweden.
"I saw some image rotated on TV. I am not sure it looks like a submarine," the minister said adding that it could be a log or something else.
Lavrov said that the Russian Defence Ministry had already made a statement on the issue.
"We had information that a Dutch submarine could be there at that time, which later went to an Estonian port," Lavrov said...............http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/756507
25/10/14
La preuve d’entrée d’un appareil sous-marin dans les eaux suédoises trouvée ...
ReplyDeleteLes forces armées suédoises ont des preuves d’une entrée non autorisée d’un appareil sous-marin étranger dans les eaux de l'archipel de Stockholm en octobre, mais elles ne peuvent pas révéler l'État, auquel cet appareil appartient, a déclaré le commandant suprême Sverker Göranson.
Le 19 octobre 2014, les médias ont rapporté qu’un sous-marin étranger envoyant un signal d’alarme avait été détecté dans les eaux territoriales de la Suède.
Les militaires suédois ont mené une opération de recherche de ce sous-marin au cours d’une semaine. Cette opération a coûté au gouvernement suédois près de 2,7 millions de dollars, mais a abouti à rien.
Lire la suite: http://french.ruvr.ru/news/2014_11_14/La-preuve-d-entree-d-un-appareil-sous-marin-dans-les-eaux-suedoises-trouvee-1585/
14/11/14