The United States intends to use all measures to stop the construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline, the Deputy Head of the Press Service of the US Department of State Jalina Porter reported. Her words leads TASS.
A representative of the State Department, commenting on media reports that the American authorities will refuse restrictions on the project operator’s company, stated that the US administration is going to use all possible tools for the gas pipeline to be completed.
before Bloomberg, with reference to the report submitted by Congress, reported that the US State Department refused sanctions against the North Stream-2 pipeline. It is noted that the construction of the gas pipeline is the activity on which the sanctions could be imposed, but the administration of US President Joseph Biden decided to abandon them “for reasons of national security.”
Initially, the gas pipeline was supposed to be commissioned in 2019. However, due to the limitations imposed by the United States, construction participants began to leave the project. The timing of its implementation was repeatedly transferred.