“It is important for us that Vienna is considering this project, in the implementation of which, as you know, the OMV concern is actively involved, as a European one, which should not and cannot be used as a means of pressure on Moscow in the context of the prospects for an intra-Ukrainian settlement,” RIA quotes Lubinsky news.
He noted that the embassy recorded adherence to this line in the statements of the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and the country's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg.
According to him, the Austrian government has consistently supported the implementation of the gas pipeline, despite the alleged pressure from outside.
Earlier, the representative of the Ministry of Economy of Germany, Suzanne Ungrad, was unable to clarify the timing of the launch of Nord Stream 2.