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“Confidential negotiations are taking place. We know about the sanctions and we are negotiating with the US administration about it,” Demmer told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday.
Soon after, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Berlin should not “tear down bridges” with Moscow.
“I do not support the destruction of all bridges with Russia,” the German diplomat said on Wednesday of the fate of the Nord Stream 2 project.
According to Maas, those who “doubt Nord Stream 2 should think geostrategically, understand the consequences.”
Such politicians, according to Maas, only “bring Russia closer to China.”
Nord Stream 2 is worth $ 10 billion. A € 1bn pipeline to double Russia’s natural gas supply to Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is supporting the project.
Russia resumed construction of a gas pipeline in German waters in December and in Danish waters this month, which a Swiss contractor halted a year ago due to the threat of US sanctions.
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