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Berlin rejects US extraterritorial sanctions against Nord Stream 2“, which has already been announced by the US administration, and keep doing it. This was emphasized by German government spokesman Steffen Seibert during a press conference.
Yesterday, the Secretary of State of the United States, Anthony Blinkon, urged the companies involved in the project to stop working, stressing that they “run the risk” of being sanctioned.
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Then the worries Uniper and OMV have spoken out in support of the pipeline. According to OMV “Nord Stream 2 “was an inexpensive project and highlighted its importance for security of supply and competitiveness in Europe. Uniper is convinced that the pipeline will be completed.
“Our position remains unchanged here. We see the extraterritorial sanctions that the United States is threatening and imposing on Nord Stream 2, and we reject them,” Seibert said.
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For her part, German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebar declined to comment on a Handelsblatt post, which said, citing a source, that Germany has promised the United States to increase support for Ukraine to complete Nord Stream 2 without further restrictions..
On March 10, at a House hearing, Blinkon noted that the United States was considering new sanctions against the pipeline. At the same time, as the Secretary of State pointed out, Washington was in an undesirable situation for him, when the project was practically completed.
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Nord Stream 2 envisages the construction of two pipelines with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year from the Russian coast through the Baltic Sea to Germany. It will also pass through the territorial or exclusive economic zones of Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
The United States is launching its liquefied natural gas in Europe and trying to prevent completion of the Russian pipeline. In December 2019, Washington imposed sanctions on the companies involved in the project, as a result of which the Swiss company Allseas, which laid the pipes, immediately ceased operations. The laying of the pipes was resumed a year later: in December 2020, the construction company Nord Stream 2, using the Russian pipe laying ship “Fortuna”, laid 2.6 km of pipes in German waters.
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Now construction has reached its final stage. According to Nord Stream 2 approximately 148 km of the pipeline remained unpaved of the total length of its two pipelines of 2,460 km: 120 in Danish waters and 28 in Germany. Work in Denmark has already started. At the end of March, the pipe-laying ship Academic Chersky will join Fortuna.
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