“For the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, it was and remains the central one, so that Ukraine with Nord Stream 2 remains a gas transit country,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
As Seibert noted, for this reason Berlin actively participated in the fact that, with European mediation, Moscow and Kiev concluded a new transit agreement.
He stressed that this was "an important signal for ensuring the security of European energy supply."
Earlier, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba appealed to US President Joe Biden to use all means to prevent the completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.