The United States doesn’t care about Ukraine’s losses from the launch of Nord Stream 2
During the final press conference following yesterday’s meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the American president did not even mention the issue of continuing the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine.
About this in the material dedicated to yesterday’s meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States in Helsinki, пишет "Kommersant".
The publication notes that during the final press conference, the presidents were asked a question about the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
The American president said that American liquefied gas will become a serious competitor to Russian supplies to Europe.
“It is noteworthy that the US President did not mention the issue of gas transit through Ukraine. Vladimir Putin, on the contrary, based his answer on the basis of the negotiations on Ukraine: he said that Russia is ready to continue gas transit through Ukraine even after the construction of Nord Stream 2, if Gazprom and Naftogaz can resolve their differences in the Stockholm arbitration. This is the first time that Russian officials have directly linked transit arrangements after 2019 and arbitration proceedings on contracts that expire in 2019,” the newspaper notes.
The publication also indicates that the first trilateral negotiations with the participation of the European Commission on the continuation of transit through Ukraine will take place on Tuesday, July 17.
“Preserving transit through Ukraine in the historical context of discussions around Nord Stream 2 has always been a condition of Germany, taking into account which Berlin agreed to support Nord Stream 2.” Russia, in turn, also agreed in principle not to completely abandon Ukrainian transit. This state of affairs, established since 2015, continues in bilateral relations today. However, Donald Trump in the Nord Stream 2 project is irritated, apparently, not by the losses of Ukraine, but in principle by the fact that Russian gas through this gas pipeline will come to northwestern Europe, that is, to the same market that American LNG is aimed at ", the publication summarizes.
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