Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Comments On Rumours About Astravets NPP Accident

International experts should be sent to Belarus.

The Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says that reports about a possible accident at the Astravets nuclear power plant that is being built in Belarus demonstrate that it would not be possible to do without foreign experts.

“There rumours or possibly the events that have really taken place once again show that it would not be possible to do without international experts, as only the words of Belarusians themselves could not be confided in,” – the minister noted in an interview to LRT radio station on Thursday.

In the middle of April part of a support structure of the future building of the nuclear safety control collapsed at Astravets nuclear power plant which is being built in Belarus not far from the Lithuanian border.

Belsat TV channel was informed about that by one an employee of one of Pinsk enterprises which are taking part in the NPP construction. As said by him, it is not the first incident, but no one had been hold responsible for that so far.

Lithuania is the most determined critic of Astravets NPP, which is built just 20 kilometres away from its border and 50 km away from its capital, Vilnius. Minsk repels complaints of Lithuania, claiming that the highest safety standards are to be guaranteed at the NPP.