US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to call for the closure of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project during an upcoming meeting with his German counterpart Heiko Maas, Acting Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker said on Friday, TASS reports.
Reeker told reporters at a special briefing that the US and German top diplomats are to hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 ministerial meeting in London.
"I think that we will meet separately with the Germans in the bilateral format. Nord Stream 2 remains an issue. You heard that from the president, from the secretary, from the spokesmen. And we will continue to make it very clear to the Germans our views of that project, that it should stop," he said.
According to the US diplomat, many other issues will be raised during bilateral talks as well.