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It is necessary to take into consideration interests of all partners, their realities, internal and external factors, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin said
“We have no disagreements with the United States, we have only one disagreement: Their desire to hold back our development,” Putin said Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “We should try to find ways to settle Russian-U.S. relations.”
Putin went on to pan U.S. sanctions on Russia as “a mystery” and said that domestic politics in Washington are steering the relationship between the two powers.
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Still, he expressed confidence that the two countries could work together, citing their shared interests in “strategic stability and the reduction of weapons dangerous for the whole world.”
The comments come ahead of a summit with Biden in Geneva on June 16, during which a slew of topics is expected to be discussed, including climate change, election interference, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and more.
First line of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline now laid - Putin
ST. PETERSBURG. June 4 (Interfax) - The pipes for the first line of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline have now been laid, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. I am pleased to announce that today, 2.5 hours ago, the laying of pipes for the first line of the gas pipeline was successfully completed, he said.
Work on the second line is ongoing, he said. The linear work as a whole, including the offshore section, is complete. At the German end everything is in order, all there is left to do is to raise and weld them at the Russian end, but the laying of the pipes is now complete, he said.