6 May 2021 11:01 GMT Updated 6 May 2021 11:01 GMT in Moscow
The US and Germany have failed to get closer in their opposing stances to Russia s controversial Nord Stream 2 gas export pipeline project across the Baltic Sea, despite efforts from US President Joe Biden’s administration to build diplomatic bridges with its European ally.
Following their meeting on the fringe of the G7 Foreign Ministers Summit in London on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas reiterated their unchanged views on the pipeline project.
The US continues to strongly oppose the Russian plan to lay a subsea gas pipeline in order to bring gas to Germany, seeing it as undermining European energy security, according to Blinken.