There's a growing understanding among colleagues in the Baltic states about the problems related to the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus, Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs said after his meeting with Latvian and Estonians lawmakers and foreign ministers in Riga on F...
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Lithuania has declined Finland's invitation for trilateral consultations with Belarus on the almost-completed Astravyets nuclear power plant.
Belarus should delay the launch of its Astravyets nuclear power plant until all stress test recommendations have been fulfilled, an advisor to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Tuesday.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, currently in Helsinki, on Tuesday invited Finland to join efforts to ensure the safety of the nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Wednesday proposed new measures to block imports of electricity produced at the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus.
Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis raises the question of whether Vilnius is making enough efforts to fend off the threat posed by Belarus' almost-completed Astravyets nuclear power plant close to the border.
The ongoing discussions in the Baltic states on the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus should come down from the political to expert level where Lithuanians could prove the damage of buying electricity from this facility, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
New integration agreements between Minsk and Moscow will bring Russia closer to the Lithuanian border "with all the consequences", which is "not a very positive thing", Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said on Tuesday.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, currently in Brussels, says the existing NATO measures to defend the Baltic states from Russia are insufficient.
John Bolton, US President Donald Trump's national security adviser, met with Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Thursday.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is leaving for an official visit to Germany on Wednesday. BNS Lithuania presents the visit's five key topics.
A part of Vilnius will be evacuated during a drill that the Lithuanian capital will hold on September 5 to simulate an accident at Belarus's Astravyets nuclear power plant.
As the launch of the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus is nearing, the authorities of Vilnius, situated some 50 km from the nuclear facility, plan to install radiation-monitoring equipment near the River Neris on the Lithuanian border.
The first thing people should do in case of an accident at the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus is to stay indoors, Edgaras Geda of Lithuania's Fire and Rescue Department says.
A temporary group of the Lithuanian Seimas will on Wednesday discuss the country's preparation for a possible nuclear or radiological accident at the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction close to the Lithuanian border.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says his predecessors were negligent in not talking to Belarus about the Astravyets nuclear power plant when the project was still in its early stages.
Belarus has rejected Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis' proposal to convert its nearly-completed Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) to gas.
With Lithuania taking steps to block electricity imports from Belarus' Astravyets nuclear power facility, Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas is convinced that Russia and Belarus will make special efforts to circumvent these barriers to export the plant's electricity to the Baltic countries.
As Lithuanian and Belarusian nuclear safety bodies are holding talks on cooperation and exchange of information on nuclear accidents, Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas says Vilnius' position regarding the safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant remains unchanged, but it is necessary to prepa...