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United States Opposes Construction and Launch of Nord Stream 2 and it will continue to impose sanctions on companies participating in the project.
This was stated by the Secretary of State of the United States, Anthony Blinken, reports DW. The politician during a hearing in the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress said: “We are against and will continue to oppose us.”
The State Department is examining the possibility of imposing sanctions on the companies involved in its construction, in particular the operator of the pipeline, Nord Stream 2 AG, which has not yet been subjected to restrictive measures.
Republican Michael McCall He urged Blinken to prevent the completion of the gas pipeline by expanding sanctions, as a different course of events “will be Putin’s victory.”… “We are extremely concerned that the strong statements of the authorities about the opposition to the gas pipeline are not backed by such forceful measures,” he emphasized.
The Nord Stream 2 project is estimated at 9.5 billion euros. It is being implemented by Gazprom in an alliance with the European companies Engie, Uniper, OMV, Shell, Wintershall. They committed to financing Nord Stream 2 in total by 50%, that is, 950 million euros each. Gazprom will provide the second half of the funds: 4.75 billion euros.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the pipeline should be put into operation in early 2021. However, the dates were subsequently postponed until the end of the year.
As OBOZREVATEL previously reported, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau publicly appealed to US President Joe Biden with a request to stop construction of Nord Stream 2 using any tool. .
