“Here they understand that the project is economically profitable for Austria, and they expect that the construction of the gas pipeline will be completed in accordance with the existing contractual basis and despite the illegal US sanctions, which pursue narrowly selfish goals: not only to push Russia back and push through its own LNG, but also strike on the competitiveness of the EU's energy-intensive industry, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to the diplomat, according to the existing contracts, in January-September, 8.8 billion cubic meters were supplied to Austria.
m of gas.
Earlier, in the exclusive economic zone of the Federal Republic of Germany, work on laying the Nord Stream 2 was completed.
The German Foreign Ministry announced the invariability of its position on Nord Stream 2.
In September, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz opposed the suspension of the Nord Stream 2 project due to the situation around Alexei Navalny.