KYIV, Aug 3 – The Chairs of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committees of the United States, Estonia, Czech Republic, Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, the U.K. and Lithuania have issued a joint statement in opposition to the recent agreement between the United States and Germany to allow the completion of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

"We, the Chairs of Foreign Affairs Committees of our respective national parliaments, continue to oppose the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project and with regret note the recent decision of the United States and Germany on Nord Stream 2, which entails resuming completion of the pipeline," the officials said in a statement released on the website of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday.