Germany bristles at US sanctions threat over Russia pipeline | Malay Mail

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BERLIN, Aug 10 — German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said today he had expressed “displeasure” to his US counterpart Mike Pompeo about Washington’s threat of sanctions against a German port over a gas pipeline from Russia. Speaking in Berlin as transatlantic tensions spike, Maas was asked by...

A worker puts a cap to a pipe at the construction site of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, near the town of Kingisepp, Leningrad region, Russia, June 5, 2019. — Reuters pic

“I mentioned it in a telephone call with Mike Pompeo yesterday and expressed my surprise and displeasure,” he said. But while those sanctions focused on technical assistance, the separate Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act lays out harsh measures that can include severing access to the US financial system.

But Ukraine, Poland and Baltic states fear that Nord Stream 2 will further embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin by giving Moscow more control over crucial energy flows.

 

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