The United States will continue to impose sanctions against Russian companies related to the construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline. About this on Sunday, June 20, said the adviser to the US President Jake Sullivan, reports TASS.
According to him, the American leader Joe Biden refused to impose restrictions on European companies, but plans to continue to pursue the company from Russia.
“The question will be directly pursued by using authority to sanctions, our European partners, allies and friends. President Biden said: I’m not ready to do this, but I am ready to introduce sanctions against Russian organizations involved every 90 days. In the construction of “Northern Flow-2”, “Sullivan explained.
Earlier it was reported that the US State Department insisted on the introduction of sanctions against Nord Stream 2 AG, which participates in the construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline, but Biden, as well as high-ranking representatives of the National Security Council refused restrictions due to concerns to spoil Relations with Germany.
At the end of May, Biden reported that US sanctions will not be able to stop the construction of the Nord-2 gas pipeline, since it is almost completed. Before that, Washington refused sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 AG gas pipeline operator and his heads of Mattias Varniga.
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 will be fill in gas already on June 11.