US, Poland oppose gas pipeline linking Russian Federation to Germany

Rex Tillerson Mateusz Morawiecki

Rex Tillerson Mateusz Morawiecki

Tillerson said the expansion of Russia's gas pipeline to Germany under the Baltic Sea, which bypasses a number of east European nations, will allow the Kremlin to use energy as a "political tool".

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is visiting Poland, and he's joining Polish Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz in denouncing the planned pipeline.

"We are proud to support Poland's energy diversification and security", Tillerson said.

Poland began importing liquid natural gas from the US past year.

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Russian Federation still provides two-thirds of Poland's gas supply, but Warsaw started importing liquefied natural gas from the United States past year in its own bid to diversify its fuel supplies. Tillerson encouraged further such sales and spoke in favour of a pipeline that would run from Poland to Norway.

Poland, which spent four decades under Soviet domination after World War Two, still imports Russian gas to meet about two-thirds of its consumption. Many officials consider Russian Federation an existential threat, particularly after Moscow seized the Crimean Peninsula from neighboring Ukraine in 2014.

They say it's a Russian scheme to politicize energy and undermine attempts to diversify European fuel supplies and make European countries less dependent on Moscow.

But Germany and Austria have focused more on the commercial benefits of having more cheap gas, arguing there could be little harm from an additional pipe. Poland, Czaputowicz said, would like to see the US enhance its military presence in the country. "We want this presence to be even bigger, and we want it to be permanent".

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