Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holding a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Store at the Joint Expeditionary Summit (JEF) on the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden. Picture date: Friday October 13, 2023. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Store at a summit on Friday where the pair agreed on the vital need to reinforce security around subsea infrastructure, Sunak’s office said on Friday.
Earlier in October, a pipeline and a data cable in the Gulf of Finland were damaged due to “outside activity” according to Finnish authorities, stoking concerns about the security of energy supply in the wider Nordic region.