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Berlin / Schwerin (dpa / mv) - In the opinion of the deputy FDP parliamentary group leader Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (FDP), the completion of the controversial Baltic Sea gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 requires changes in Russian foreign policy.

"Then you can also talk about whether or not to finish building the pipeline," said Lambsdorff on Thursday on Deutschlandfunk.

In the current situation, further construction is the wrong way to go.

Because billions have already been invested in the pipeline and the lines are more than 90 percent ready, the FDP is not in favor of immediate dismantling, but in favor of a construction stop.

"Until we have a certain normalization again in German-Russian and European-Russian relations."

Lambsdorff referred, for example, to Russia's behavior in the Ukraine conflict.

Nord Stream 2 is part of a “geopolitics with energy-efficient means”.

Countries between Russia and the EU should be made subject to blackmail by eliminating them as necessary transit countries for gas transport.

Lambsdorff called the foundation planned by the state government in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to support the construction of the pipeline as a "Gazprom Foundation".

“99 percent of the text of the statute is about climate and environmental protection, but 99 percent of the money comes directly from Nord Stream 2 AG, which belongs to Gazprom.

And Gazprom is allowed to determine both the managing director and the business principles of the business there.

In other words: yes, this is a cover organization that has been set up here. "

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Last week, the Schwerin state parliament cleared the way for the establishment of a state-owned environmental foundation.

The foundation, which is oriented towards the common good, aims to promote projects in the field of environmental, nature and climate protection, but also to be able to be commercially active.

The foundation plans to buy components and machines that are essential for the completion of the gas pipeline.

This is intended to circumvent threatened US sanctions against companies involved in the construction of the line as far as possible.

Draft of the foundation statutes