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Sen. Cruz Urges Administration To Stop Nord Stream 2 PipelineBy News Staff - December 3, 2019Sen. Cruz: If Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Is Completed, It Will Be the Fault of This AdministrationWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today at a hearing on the future of U.S. policy toward Russia, urged the administration to finally use its statutory authority to stop Russia’s Nord Stream 2, a natural gas pipeline that will vastly strengthen President Vladimir Putin hands at the expense of the rest of the free world.Warning undersecretary of state for political affairs David Hale about the dangers of Nord Stream 2 at the hearing, Sen. Cruz said:“Let me give you a very clear message to take back to your colleagues. […] Time is of the essence. A strategy that is, ‘Let’s pursue our diplomatic options,’ at this point, is a strategy to do nothing. […] A strategy that will result with 100 percent certainty in the pipeline being completed and Putin getting billions of dollars and Europe being made energy dependent more so on Russia and in weakening the United States’ position in the world.Read more at: https://www.focusdailynews.com/sen-cruz-urges-administration-to-stop-nord-stream-2-pipeline/
Opinion | Will Trump stop the Russian pipeline he says he opposes?Josh RoginPresident Trump has repeatedly criticized the Russian-German pipeline project called Nord Stream 2, which administration officials say will aid Russia, harm Ukraine and place Europe in a weakened position when dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Trump’s administration is failing to stop the pipeline due to an internal struggle inside his Cabinet — and time is running out.The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a wholly owned project of Russian energy giant Gazprom. The Trump administration has long criticized the German government for participating, and there’s a near-consensus in Congress that if completed, the project would result in Moscow gaining huge leverage over Europe that it could use to advance Russian interests at the expense of the West.The pipeline also would allow Moscow to bypass Ukraine, which is dependent on the billions of dollars in revenue it earns by being the key pathway to Europe for Russian gas. For months, Congress has been working on a bill that would impose sanctions on the two European companies that are laying the deep-sea pipes, with the goal of getting them to stop and thereby thwarting the pipeline’s completion.More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/04/will-trump-stop-russian-pipeline-he-says-he-opposes/
Honcharuk discusses Nord Stream 2 with Swedish Prime MinisterPrime Minister of Ukraine raised issue of bilateral cooperation between Swedish and Ukrainian governmentsToday, December 4, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk met with his Swedish counterpart Stefan Löfven, where he discussed the topic of Nord Stream - 2. The Government portal reports.“The functioning of gas pipelines in the EU should be carried out in strict accordance with European legislation, in particular the EU gas directive. It is important that EU member states do not make any exceptions to Nord Stream - 2. This is a matter of the region’s energy security and quality of services. in the European energy market," - it was informed.Honcharuk also raised the issue of bilateral cooperation between the Swedish and Ukrainian governments.Read more at: https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/honcharuk-discusses-nord-stream-2-with-swedish-prime-minister-46214.html
