ns2 sanctions bills emerge before Trump-Putin meeting

摘要

US lawmakers are advancing legislation targeting the Russian energy sector before a planned meeting between US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin later this week. The House of Representatives’ Foreign Afairs Committee unanimously ap- proved a bill requiring the Trump administration to impose sanctions on foreign frms providing pipe-laying vessels for oil and gas export pipelines on 26 June. Gazprom’s under-construction 55bn m~3/yr Nord Stream 2 line to Germany beneath the Baltic Sea is the intended target.