UPDATE: US warns of sanctions against Nord Stream-2, TurkStream

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WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, Jul 15 (PRIME) -- The U.S. is updating public guidance to add the Nord Stream-2 pipeline and the second line of the TurkStream-2 sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at a news conference on Wednesday.

This action puts investments or other activities that are related to these Russian energy export pipelines at risk of the U.S. sanctions, he said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the spread of U.S. sanctions the use of political pressure for unfair competition.

“This is the use of political pressure for unfair competition,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told PRIME, adding that this was “an indicator of the weakness of the U.S. system.”

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