“It is absolutely certain that Americans pursue their own commercial interests. This is a clear unfair competition, this is the pushing of the interests of US companies in the competition with European and Russian companies, this is the shameless conversion of American political and economic power into a banal commercial gain. I see the symbolic power of fantastic power in the fact that the current sanctions are included precisely in the US defense budget, ”he added.
According to the senator, the Americans sign such a step under the fact that they "make energy a weapon."
“We absolutely absolutely have to continue the implementation of the Nord Stream-2 project from the Russian side without any regard for the new American sanctions, but much will depend on the actions of our partners,” Kosachev explained.
He also stressed that the American side, unilaterally applying economic sanctions, conflicts with the UN Charter, which provides for sanctions exclusively by decision of the UN Security Council.
“And, of course, they come into apparent contradiction with the rules and regulations of the WTO, which such cases of unfair competition and shameless protectionism of their own interests of American companies in no way allows,” he concluded.
Earlier, the US Treasury announced the imposition of sanctions against Nord Stream 2.
The document states that parties that sold, leased or leased vessels involved in laying pipes at sea more than 100 feet in depth as part of the construction of Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream, “must ensure that these vessels immediately ceased construction activities. ”