8 Nov 2011 16:24

Nord Stream most modern in safeguarding environment - Medvedev

LUBMIN. Nov 8 (Interfax) - The Nord Stream gas pipeline was built in accordance with the strictest environmental requirements, and there have been many discussions of those requirements, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at the pipeline's launch on Tuesday.

The main thing, Medvedev said, "is that today everyone sees that the tasks of this project are absolutely pragmatic or economic. It is possible to say with confidence that the new gas pipeline will be the most modern in this sphere and in the sphere of protecting the environment especially."