BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - Talks to revive the Nord

Stream gas pipelines to relaunch Russian gas flows to Germany

would be "completely the wrong direction" to go, Germany's

economy and energy minister said on Monday.

The Nord Stream pipelines are by far the biggest potential

route for Russian gas to flow to Europe. The Nord Stream 1

pipeline supplied gas from 2011 to 2022. The $11 billion Nord

Stream 2 project was completed in 2021 but never launched as

Germany halted the plan ahead of Russia's war in Ukraine.

Asked on Monday if there was any possibility of the

pipelines across the Baltic Sea being revived, Robert Habeck

said that at the moment there was not.

"The Ukrainians are still under the aggression of Russia. So

I think talking about the potential of Nord Stream 2 or Nord

Stream 1, if it's going to be repaired, is completely the wrong

direction of discussion," Habeck told reporters in Brussels.

In September 2022, one of the two lines of Nord Stream 2 was

damaged by mysterious blasts, along with both lines of Nord

Stream 1. No one has taken responsibility for causing the

damage.

Germany for decades relied heavily on Russian gas, but

Norway has become its biggest supplier since the Ukraine war.

Moscow slashed gas supplies to Europe in 2022, plunging the

continent into an energy crisis of record-high gas prices.

Habeck said he was concerned Germany's likely incoming

government would forget the lessons learned from Europe's past

heavy reliance on Russian energy.

"The Social Democrats and the Conservative party in Germany,

they built the German energy dependency from Russia, and they

did it willingly," he said.

"I'm concerned that the lecture we learned in 2022... can be

forgotten."

The conservative CDU/CSU and Social Democrats have started

coalition talks to form Germany's next government.

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has helped

Russian gas giant Gazprom's share price recover on hopes a swift

Ukrainian peace deal would lead to the restoration of gas

exports to Europe, Alpha Bank said in a note last month.

However, there are few signs the continent will rush to

again tie itself to Russian gas.

The Financial Times reported this month that a long-time

ally of Putin was lobbying the U.S. to allow investors to

restart Nord Stream 2. The German government has said it remains

committed to independence from Russian energy.