DN: Norwegian ministries held a meeting on maritime threats

In the middle of this month, bureaucrats from several ministries met to talk about “risks related to security-threatening maritime activity.”

The meeting was held just two weeks before the leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

The first meeting of the so-called inter-ministerial group was called in June, and on September 14, there was a meeting on “handling security-threatening maritime activity,” the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv writes. 

The following day, a briefing was given on an investigation of the risk, according to document entries in the Ministry of Justice and Emergency Management’s mailing list.

“It is true that a meeting was held at the official level about security-threatening maritime activity on the Ministry of Defense’s premises last week. The intelligence and security services’ threat assessments following Russia’s attack on Ukraine have led to increased prioritization of work to counter illegal intelligence activities, also maritime ones. Beyond this, we do not comment on internal meetings in the ministry,” Hanne Skodje, acting communications manager for the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, said before the weekend in response to DN’s questions about the meetings.

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