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Thursday, 25.04.2024, 15:30
Lithuanian parlt declares Belarus' N-plant a threat to natnl security
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The respective bill was passed on
Thursday with 104 votes in favor.
Vytautas Bakas, the chairman of the Seimas Committee on National
Security and Defense, said that the law would be of paramount importance.
"Both in the medium and
long-term, (the law) will have special significance for the safety of people
and the quality of their lives and for the state's progress," he said.
According to Bakas, in building
the unsafe plant, Belarus violates three international conventions and the
project is not transparent.
The Seimas has recently passed a
law aimed at restricting electricity imports from Belarus and Russia.
Russia's state corporation Rosatom is building the nuclear power
plant in Astravyets, some 50 kilometers from Vilnius. The Lithuanian government
maintains that the project falls short of safety and environmental standards,
but Minsk rejects the criticism as unfounded.
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