The US State Department is monitoring efforts to complete Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline and analyze information about the companies involved, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkon was quoted as saying by BTA.
“Any legal entity involved in Nord Stream 2 risks US sanctions and must immediately abandon its work on the pipeline,” Blinkon said.
He added that the Biden government is determined to comply with the 2019 and 2020 legislation providing for sanctions on the pipeline. Shortly after Blinkon’s statement, Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican and opponent of the pipeline, stopped two nominations for President Joe Biden, including William Burns for CIA director.
Biden said the Nord Stream 2 project was a “bad deal” for both Germany and Ukraine and for US allies in Central and Eastern Europe, Blinkon said.
