The countries bordering the Baltic Sea should establish joint maritime surveillance in the area. This should be done with the participating countries' fleets.
This is what Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is proposing, according to the dpa news agency, ahead of a meeting in Sweden between the heads of government of the Nordic and Baltic countries.
The meeting is getting underway while international focus is on the Chinese ship "Yi Peng 3", which is located in the Kattegat and may have a connection to recent cable breaks in the Baltic Sea.
Tusk refers to the fact that there is already an initiative called Baltic Air Policing for airspace.
- I want to convince my partners of the necessity of immediately creating a similar system - a naval surveillance, says Tusk.
All countries bordering the Baltic Sea and feeling threatened by Russia can participate in the joint surveillance, he says.
The vessel "Yi Peng 3" has been identified as interesting in investigations into what happened when cables in the Baltic Sea were broken over a week ago ago.
Swedish police launched a preliminary investigation into the breaches last week. In this connection, it was said that sabotage may have been involved. But the cause has not yet been determined.
On its way from a Russian port, the Chinese ship passed the two data cables, which were soon found to be broken.
It was on Monday last week that it emerged that there had been damage to two data cables. The cables run between Finland and Germany and Sweden and Lithuania, respectively.
Ships from authorities in several countries - including Denmark - are near "Yi Peng 3", which lies quietly outside Danish territorial waters, but in the Danish economic zone.
According to dpa, the Nordic-Baltic summit is the first of its kind among the countries' heads of government since 2017. Poland is participating for the first time.
The meeting was called before the cable case.
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