Ambassador Of Lithuania On BelNPP: We Do Not Get Answers To Our Questions

The electricity produced at such a facility will not enter the Lithuanian market.

Lithuania has not received answers to its questions about the Belarusian nuclear power plant. And it worries not only experts, the authorities of Lithuania, but common citizens who learn about various incidents, about the death of people, too. Moreover, the station is being constructed near Vilnia. The Ambassador of Lithuania to Belarus Andrius Pulokas told Euroradio about that:

"The main issue is security, starting with the selection of a site for construction. It's a NPP, not an industrial enterprise ... Unfortunately, there have been no answers to our questions, and in such atmosphere the construction started to run ahead. The temperature has increased and is still rising."

The ambassador admits that it is up to a sovereign country to build a nuclear power plant, but the construction must follow international norms. International experts were supposed to give an independent assessment of whether the site was suitable, and of various other issues. "These procedures, which are regulated by international law, have not been finished ... There have been four violations recorded ... But the construction goes on," - Pulocas says.

"This is a Russian project, a Russian loan, Russian technologies, Russian builders. We have very little trust ... This mistrust creates a lot of problems," - the ambassador notes.

Andrius Pulokas reminds that the Lithuanian parliament has made a decision based on data, according to which the Belarusian nuclear power plant can’t be regarded as safe enough: the electricity produced at such a facility will not enter the Lithuanian market. "And this law will be implemented in life," - Mr. Pulokas says.