US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at a meeting with the head of German Foreign Minister Haiko Maasa will call Berlin to suspend the construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline. This was announced during the briefing the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Philip Ricker, reports TASS.
Negotiations are scheduled at the ministerial meeting of the Seven Group in London next week. According to Ricker, “North Stream-2” “remains a problem.” “We will continue to greatly give to Germany to understand our views on this project that it must be stopped,” he said.
previously became known that the German authorities wanted to quickly complete and put into operation the Russian export gas pipeline “Northern Stream-2”. The FRG stressed that the country still needs reliable gas supplies from Russia.
Initially, the North Stream-2 should have been commissioned at the end of 2019. However, due to the limitations imposed by the United States, its participants began to leave the project. Terms of implementation were repeatedly transferred and at the moment are not accurately defined. At the end of April, the Russian vessel academician Cherka began laying pipes in the waters of Denmark.
Russian governments Alexander Novak said that the construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline was completed in 2021, but did not name the dates. On the other hand, earlier, the head of the State Duma Committee on Energy Pavel Zavalny told the deputies of the Bundestag that work on the “Northern Flow-2” will be completed until autumn, and then gas can already be supplied.