The
Belarusian leader and other officials criticized the Nord Stream project, a
planned offshore pipeline from Russia
to Germany,
Interfax quoted visiting Estonian foreign minister as saying. Urmas
Paet made the statement after his meetings with Alyaksandr Lukashenka and
Foreign Minister Syarhey Martynaw of Belarus. He noted that Estonia is also
critical of the project. "Environmental risks are too big is the pipeline
is build offshore," he noted.
Russia seeks to build
the natural gas pipeline to reduce its dependence on Belarus and other countries for
transit.