The Committee on US Households Communications approved amendment designed to cancel the refusal to the American administration from sanctions against the North Stream-2 gas pipeline in 2022 fiscal year. About this July 1 reports TASS with reference to the voting results.
It is noted that the amendment was adopted unanimously. In the future, the text will have to approve both US Congress Chambers before the bill will send American president Joe Bidenu.
The fact that the administration of the President of the United States Joe Bayiden will remove sanctions from the Nord Stream-2 operator, – Nord Stream 2 AG – reported earlier. According to the sources of Reuters, the State Department considers the abolition of measures part of the national interests of the United States. German Foreign Minister Haiko Maas stated that this decision is a step towards Germany.
Initially, the launch of the “Northern Flow-2” was scheduled for the end of 2019, but due to American sanctions it had to postpone him several times. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in June that the completion of the second branch of the pipeline will occur after one and a half or two months. The first thread began to fill in gas on June 11.