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US and Germany reach deal on controversial pipeline that Biden sees as a Russian geopolitical project
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Nicole Gaouette and Jennifer Hansler, CNN
Published Jul 22, 2021 5:29:35 AM
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(CNN) The US announced Wednesday that it has reached a deal with Germany that would allow completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline opposed by the Biden administration as a malign influence project that Russia could use to gain leverage over European allies. While we remain opposed to the pipeline, we reached the judgment that sanctions would not stop its construction and risked undermining a critical alliance with Germany, as well as with the EU and other European allies, a senior State Department official said Wednesday.
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President Joe Biden s plan to mitigate the geopolitical harm done by the Nord Stream 2 pipeline drew condemnation from Poland and Ukraine, as officials in both countries protested their exclusion from U.S. negotiations with Germany about the controversial energy project.
“Unfortunately, the hitherto proposals to cover the resulting security deficit cannot be considered sufficient to effectively limit the threats created by NS2,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in a joint statement Wednesday. “We call on the United States and Germany to adequately address the security crisis in our region, that Russia is the only beneficiary to.”
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