Ukraine can be certain that Germany and also the European Union will certainly assure its condition as a transportation nation for Russian gas also after the Nord Stream 2 pipe has actually opened up, German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed on Monday.
Merkel made the statements throughout a press conference with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy 3 days prior to she holds talks in Washington with UNITED STATE President Joe Biden, whose management protests the practically finished pipe.
“The European Union and Germany will see to it that this continues in the future beyond 2024,” claimedMerkel “We promised Ukraine and will keep our promise. It is my custom to keep my word and I believe this applies to every future chancellor.”
Washington and also Kyiv worry Russia might make use of the pipe, which will certainly bring Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea, to rob Ukraine of rewarding transportation charges and also possibly threaten its resist Russian- backed separationists.
Zelenskiy recommended that the concern of Ukraine’s power safety and security be integrated right into the supposed Normandy Format talks at which Ukraine, Russia, France and also Germany review the condition of the problem in eastern Ukraine.
Merkel was great on the concept. “I believe the Normandy Format is complicated enough already,” she claimed. The 4 events last satisfy in 2019.
In May, Biden forgoed assents versus the business behind the Nord Stream 2 pipe.
(Reporting by Thomas Escritt and also Joseph Nasr in Berlin and also Ilya Zhegulev in Kyiv; Editing by David Clarke)