US State Secretary warns Germany over N Stream 2 sanctions

BRUSSELS, Mar 24 (PRIME) -- U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken warned German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Wednesday of possible sanctions if gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is finished.

The Nord Stream-2 project envisages construction of two lines of a natural gas pipeline with an annual capacity of up to 55 billion cubic meters, running from the Russian shore to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Russian gas giant Gazprom builds the pipeline together with Germany’s Uniper and Wintershall Dea, Royal Dutch Shell, Austria’s OMV, and France’s Engie.

End %%mk/jst%%