"We fully respect the desire of Sweden to provide for the 100% environmental sustainability of the project and we are fully supportive of such an approach," Lavrov told a news briefing in Stockholm through an interpreter.
He was in the Swedish capital for bilateral talks with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt after attending a meeting of Baltic Sea foreign ministers in Malmo, Sweden, this week, Reuters reported.
Nord Stream is being built by Russia's Gazprom and Germany's BASF and E.ON
