WARSAW, June 16. /TASS/. The US plans to broaden sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project did not change the position of the German government in respect of the project implementation, Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said at the joint press conference with his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz.

"The fact that sanctions are considered or new ones will be possibly initiated there [in the US — TASS] does not change anything in our position on the Nord Stream 2," Maas said. "Sanctions discussed now are extraterritorial by nature from our point of view; we reject them," the Minister said.

It was reported earlier that US senators, including Ted Cruz, Jeanne Shaheen and John Barrasso introduced a bill expanding sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project to the Senate.

The Nord Stream 2 project envisages construction of two gas pipeline strings with the total capacity of 55 bln cubic meters per year from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea. The gas pipeline is 93% complete to date.