“Regarding Nord Stream 2, as you know, there was a meeting with the participation of advisers to the FRG Chancellor and the State Secretary of the FRG Foreign Ministry with their colleagues from the American administration, this is the norm in close and intensive relations that we maintain with the American administration.
The negotiations will continue, "RIA Novosti quoted Seibert as saying.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on the sidelines of the SPIEF that Russia hopes that the construction of Nord Stream 2 will be completed by the end of 2021, with about 100 km of the pipeline left to be built.
US President Joe Biden admitted that the construction of this gas pipeline is nearing completion and the imposition of sanctions against the project will be counterproductive for relations with Europe.