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Earlier this year. the US unveiled sanctions aimed at the illegal trade of petroleum products. coal and other goods with North Korea.

The Nord Stream-2 pipeline is going to be 1.2 thousand km long. with capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

The project has seen strong opposition from the European Commission as increasing EU'.s dependence on Russian gas and undermining Ukrainian transit.

In early July. US President Donald Trump announced that the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline would make Germany ``hostage`` to Russia.

Poland buys most of the gas it consumes from Russia but has taken steps to reduce that reliance.

Both leaders raised concerns about Syria and the plight of the many refugees created by the seven-year-old war there.

The gas pipeline project is currently on the agenda of the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Western sanctions. first introduced in 2014 over Russia'.s apparent role in the conflict in Ukraine and later expanded.

conglomerate Gazprom filed objections to the Polish antimonopoly body UOKiK and petitioned the termination of the antimonopoly investigation procedure.

The Nord Stream-2 project is an expansion of the existing Nord Stream main gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany.