NATO member countries do not have a single position on the topics of the Russian gas pipeline “Northern Stream-2”. This was stated by the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference in Berlin, broadcast available in Youtube.
“Between the NATO countries there are different views on the” Northern Stream-2 “question, but all the countries of the Alliance agree with the need to diversify their energy sources. For many reasons, both environmental and security reasons,” the Secretary General said and urged members of the Alliance to diversification.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Following the negotiations with a colleague from Germany, European countries called on European countries and, in particular, Germany not to politicize questions arising around the certification of the North Stream-2 project. According to the Russian minister, the EU in general and Germany in particular need a gas pipeline, since it guarantees their energy security.