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Russian and U.S. negotiators held concealed talks connected resuming state flows to Germany via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the German tabloid Bild reported Sunday, citing anonymous sources acquainted with the matter.
The Swiss-based relation of Nord Stream 2 and different Russia-based entities linked to the $11 cardinal pipeline are presently nether U.S. sanctions. The reported U.S.-Russia discussions connected restarting the pipeline are seen arsenic portion of President Donald Trump’s efforts to rebuild ties with Russia.
According to Bild, Trump’s peculiar envoy Richard Grenell made aggregate unofficial visits to the office of Nord Stream 2 AG — the pipeline’s operator, which is afloat owned by Russia’s sanctioned vigor elephantine Gazprom — successful the Swiss metropolis of Steinhausen for negotiations.
Grenell denied participating successful the reported talks.
The Bild study notes that a imaginable woody could springiness the U.S. power implicit Russian state flows via Nord Stream 2, with American investors — including businessman Stephen Lynch — allegedly expressing involvement successful the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 operators.
A U.S.-led consortium had drafted the outlines of a post-sanctions woody with Gazprom, The Financial Times reported Sunday, citing anonymous sources acquainted with the discussions.
The effort is being led by Nord Stream 2’s erstwhile managing director, Matthias Warnig, a erstwhile East German spy and longtime subordinate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to FT.
“In this way, according to the calculation, Americans would modulate the German state pat and gain wealth astatine the aforesaid time,” Bild wrote, noting that the U.S. authorities itself would not beryllium straight involved.
The German authorities has reportedly not participated successful the confidential talks successful Switzerland. It remains unclear whether a woody to restart Nord Stream 2 volition materialize, Bild wrote.
On Monday, the Kremlin dismissed the Bild report.
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