Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday faced growing pressure to reconsider Germany's Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with Russia following the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday faced growing pressure to reconsider Germany’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with Russia following the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the question of sanctions on the pipeline, which will bring gas from Russia to Germany, rested on Moscow’s cooperation in clearing up what exactly happened to Navalny. Navalny was airlifted to Germany for hospital treatment after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight last month. The German government says he was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent similar to the one used in an attempt to kill a former Russian spy in England two years ago.“I have always said that I am not fond of the Nord Stream 2 project,” Kramp-Karrenbauer said. “To me it was always clear that the security interests of Eastern European states and Ukraine must be taken into consideration.
Foreign Minister Maas of the Social Democratic Party , junior partners in Merkel’s coalition government, said in remarks published on Sunday that a failure by Moscow to help to clear up the circumstances of Navalny’s illness would add to suspicions that Russia’s government was involved.
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