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– The situation we are facing now is very serious and may ultimately weaken our preparedness and damage relations with our allies, Tybring-Gjedde writes to Bergens Tidende.
– I am not unaware that the gravity and gravity of this case could force a motion of censure, he continues.
Tybring-Gjedde is the second deputy chairman of the Storting’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
The Norwegian Navy is a major customer
E24 has previously written that the Marjata spy ship, one of the most important electronic service tools for monitoring Russian activity in the Upper North, is maintained by Bergen Engines.
The company will be sold to the Russian-controlled TMH International, which has paid NOK 1.6 billion for the Hordvikneset engine factory.
Among Bergen Engines main customers is the Norwegian Navy. In the latest threat assessment of the Police Security Service (PST), National Security Authority (NSM) and electronic service, foreign acquisitions of strategic infrastructure are identified as a threat.
Tybring-Gjedde says it is a “security policy disaster” that the government did not conduct any risk assessment prior to the sale. Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen (H) has said that a risk assessment has been initiated and that the sale has not been completed.
– Strange
Anniken Huitfeldt, chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, believes that the most important thing for Norway’s security now is that the matter is clarified.
– The Labor Party has therefore posed a number of critical questions to the minister. Now we are waiting for an answer, he says.
– I think it is strange that the FRP is already threatening mistrust, but that probably says more about the increasing tensions between the government and the supporting party FRP.
The Center Party will wait to rule on a motion of no confidence until it is presented at the Storting.
– But we don’t need to protect any Conservative Party minister. We believe this is a serious mistake, says Parliamentary Representative Emilie Enger Mehl (Sp) to NTB.
She calls the case a total scandal.
– The government has to intervene. Here there has been a total failure at all stages.
