Earlier on Saturday, US President Donald Trump enacted the 2020 National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes sanctions against the gas pipeline to target companies and individuals involved in providing services on the project, Eurasia Diary reports citing Sputnik News.
Deputy government spokesperson Ulrike Demmer said on Saturday that Berlin “expressed regret over the fact that US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines have taken effect.”
The German government "rejects such extraterritorial sanctions", which “target German and European companies” and which can be seen as “interference in our domestic affairs, Demmer underscored.
She reiterated that "such US measures, which were justified primarily by the protection of Ukraine, are all the more incomprehensible" given "Thursday’s talks on Ukrainian gas transit”.
“Russia and Ukraine have clinched a fundamental agreement, which was supported by the European Commission and Berlin, on a new gas transit treaty [which will take effect in] 2020. We welcome the parties signing a concrete deal on Friday”, Demmer added.