German politicians question Russia gas project after Navalny suspected ❤️🌳❤️🌳poisoning
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Source: Reuters
By Andreas
Rinke
BERLIN, Sept 6
(Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday faced growing pressure to
reconsider Germany's Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with Russia following the
suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Defence
Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the question of sanctions on the
pipeline, which will bring gas from Russia to Germany, rested on Moscow's
cooperation in clearing up what exactly happened to Navalny.
Foreign
Minister Heiko Maas said suspicion would fall on Russia if it failed to help
resolve the matter.
Navalny was
airlifted to Germany for hospital treatment after falling ill on a Russian
domestic flight last month. The German government says he was poisoned with a
Novichok nerve agent similar to the one used in an attempt to kill a former
Russian spy in England two years ago.
Moscow says it
has seen no evidence he was poisoned.
"I have
always said that I am not fond of the Nord Stream 2 project,"
Kramp-Karrenbauer said. "To me it was always clear that the security
interests of Eastern European states and Ukraine must be taken into
consideration."
Pressed on
whether Germany was ready to sanction the project, Kramp-Karranbauer said:
"What happens now depends on the behavior of the Russian side."
Foreign
Minister Maas of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), junior partners in Merkel's
coalition government, said in remarks published on Sunday that a failure by
Moscow to help to clear up the circumstances of Navalny's illness would add to
suspicions that Russia's government was involved.
"I
certainly hope that the Russians will not force us to change our position on
Nord Stream 2," he told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
The affair has
led to calls from several leading conservatives for Merkel to suspend the
pipeline, a huge, nearly complete project to bring Russian gas to Germany under
the sea.
Merkel, a
supporter of the pipeline, has said it should not be linked to the Navalny
case. (Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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