{"id":48873,"date":"2021-02-22T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=165301"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:53:58","slug":"ukrainian-polish-foreign-ministers-call-on-u-s-to-help-stop-nord-stream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/22\/ukrainian-polish-foreign-ministers-call-on-u-s-to-help-stop-nord-stream-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian, Polish Foreign Ministers Call On U.S. To Help Stop Nord Stream 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau have appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden to prevent the completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, which they called a “dangerous, divisive project.”<\/p>\n
The pipeline would affect Ukraine by depriving it of transit fees from existing pipelines that transverse its territory.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Congress last year passed the Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Clarification Act (PEESCA) to widen the list of sanctionable services against the project to include providing insurance, reinsurance, pipeline testing, inspection, and certification services. PEESCA became law on January 1.<\/p>\n
“Poland and Ukraine have long warned against the dangers associated with the construction of Nord Stream 2. Our calls for vigilance and boldness were heard in the U.S. Congress, which pressed on with measures designed to stop this dangerous, divisive project,” Kuleba and Rau said in a joint article<\/a><\/strong> published in Politico on February 22.<\/p>\n “We call on U.S. President Joe Biden to use all means at his disposal to prevent the project from completion,” the two ministers said.<\/p>\n