Congress did not approve the suspension of sanctions against Nord Stream 2

Appropriations Committee approved an amendment that prohibits Biden from lifting sanctionsagainst the gas pipeline in fiscal year 2022. For it to come into force, it must be approved by both houses of Congress and signed by the president.

The US House Appropriations Committee has approved an amendment that prevents President Joe Biden from suspending sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. This follows from the voting during the committee meeting.

We are talking about the possible exclusion of sanctions against the pipeline for the 2022 fiscal year. According to Bloomberg, the author of the amendment was Democratic Congresswoman from Ohio Marcy Kaptur. The amendment was added to the federal government's foreign spending bill.

“We expect the presidential administration to hear our strong message and make European energy security a priority issue,” Kaptur quoted the agency as saying.

Blinken will ask Germany to stop Nord Stream 2 Politics

Now, in order to approve the ban on lifting sanctions against Nord Stream 2, the amendment must be approved by the House of Representatives, the Senate, and then signed by the President of the United States .

The gas pipeline, which should connect Russia and Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, was planned to be completed in 2019. However, due to US sanctions against the executors and partners of the project, its implementation has slowed down. Now the first string of the pipe has already been completed, Gazprom announced that the gas will be released this year.

Washington considers Nord Stream 2 a threat to Europe's energy security - the White House said that Moscow would use the pipeline as a political tool in dialogue with the EU. In Germany, they called American sanctions interference in internal affairs and noted that in the next decades the country's energy sector is not ready to abandon Russian gas.

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The Kremlin announced the intention of partners to complete Nord Stream 2 Politics

At the end of May, Biden said that the introduction of new sanctions against Nord Stream 2 was unproductive in terms of building relations with Europe, and besides, the project was almost completed.

The Kremlin welcomed such statements from the White House. “It was pointless to continue to resist and impose sanctions, because we completed it,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin .

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