Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the European Commission currently on a visit in Vilnius, has again urged Belarus to conduct internationally-monitored stress tests of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant currently under construction close to Lithuania. […]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on Belarus to suspend the construction of its Astravyets nuclear power plant in a resolution adopted on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania’s parliament has urged Estonia, Latvia and Poland to bar electricity from unsafe nuclear utilities. […]
A group of Lithuanian lawmakers propose that the Seimas should formally invite Polish, Latvian and Estonian parliamentarians to join initiatives to block electricity from the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus. […]
Lithuania will try to prove the need for an international expert body for the Astravyets nuclear power plant under the construction in Belarus at a high-level meeting of the parties to the Espoo Convention that is starting in Minsk on Monday. […]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did not analyze the selection of the site for the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) close to the Lithuanian border in Belarus, which runs counter to information provided by Belarus, which said that IAEA had found the construction site suitable. Nevertheless, the agency’s report does not say anything about this. […]
The world clearly understands that key threats to transatlantic security in our region arise from the militarization of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the Zapad military exercise and Belarus‘ Astravyets nuclear power plant, which has become a geopolitical weapon, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]
Lithuania will be able to prepare for imposing an embargo on Belarusian electricity once its parliament declares the nuclear power plant under construction in Astravyets, a mere 50 kilometers from Vilnius, a threat to national security, Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas said on Wednesday. […]
The Lithuanian government has decided that Belarus‘ nuclear power plant under construction Astravyets, a mere 50 kilometers from Vilnius, poses a threat to national security. […]
Lithuania values the economic partnership with Belarus, however, cannot ignore the problems the country is faced with, says Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
Lithuania’s parliament is advised to show solidarity with the neighboring Poland and state support to the resumed investigation of the 2010 airliner crash that claimed lives of then president Lech Kaczynski and another 95 individuals. […]
Lithuania seeks support from foreign diplomats as the country tries to stop Belarus’ Astravyets nuclear power project over safety concerns. […]
There will be no thaw in the energy dialog between the EU and Belarus until Minsk proves that the nuclear power plant it is building not far from Vilnius is safe, EU Energy Union Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said in the Lithuanian capital on Thursday. […]
Amid doubts whether Lithuania’s efforts to impose an embargo on electricity from the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus will be compatible with WTO rules, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the country will ensure that power from unsafe facilities has no access to its market. […]
Lithuanian-French relationship is officially called a strategic partnership, close cultural cooperation is in place but economic relations and defence relations are rather scarce. […]
A law passed by the Lithuanian parliament on Thursday to restrict electricity imports from the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus will help attract more attention in Brussels to the project’s safety problems, Rebecca Harms, a leading German Greens politician, said in Vilnius on Friday. […]
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday adopted a bill to restrict electricity imports from the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus and other unsafe nuclear facilities in third countries. […]
Latvian Deputy Prime Minister and Economics Minister Arvils Aseradens is to meet with the Lithuanian energy and economy ministers to discuss the countries’ key energy projects and efforts to restrict imports from the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus, and to visit the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. […]
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