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Lithuanian Conservatives Leave Seimas Session Due To Position Related To BelNPP

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Lithuanian Conservatives Leave Seimas Session Due To Position Related To BelNPP

The MPs will turn to the President of Lithuania for support.

On October 16, members of the Union of the Fatherland - Christian Democrats of Lithuania Audronius Ažubalis, Emanuelis Zingeris and Laurynas Kasčiūnas left the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs. The meeting discussed the position of Lithuania in the negotiations between the European Union and Belarus, reports Charter97.org correspondent from Vilnius.

The Conservatives proposed supplementing Lithuania’s position with a clause on refusing to buy electricity from the unsafe Astravets NPPs. The draft stated that all future EU and Belarus agreements should contain Lithuania’s position on the Astravets NPP. The Conservative MPs insisted that the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry must take measures to ensure that the provision on the prohibition of electric power from the station to domestic markets is included in the negotiation conditions of the EU in the documents regulating relations between Brussels and Belarus.

The Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs refused to vote on this proposal, after which the deputies left the conference room.

“We did not see any other way out but to leave the conference room, because we did not want to legitimize the compromising position of the governing bodies regarding the Astravets NPP,” said MP Audronius Ažubalis. He added that the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania are delaying the resolution of the issue.

The Conservative MPs said they would be forced to appeal to the President of Lithuania with a request to take the initiative to ensure the proper presentation of Lithuania’s position to European and transatlantic partners and receive the necessary support.

Member of the Lithuanian Seimas Emanuelis Zingeris said that the Conservatives intend to use the tools of parliamentary diplomacy and talk about the insecurity of the Astravets NPP during meetings with parliamentarians of other countries, and in addressing the leaders of the European People’s Party. “The threat posed by the Astravets NPP should become a problem not only for Lithuania, but also for the European Union as a whole,” Zingeris added.

Earlier, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda proposed new measures to block electricity from the Belarusian nuclear power plant under construction in Astravets. Amendments to the law provide for the possibility of canceling permits and a ban on the issuance of new ones for the import of electricity from third countries where the nuclear power plant has been recognized as unsafe since the beginning of its activities.

In April 2017, the Lithuanian Parliament passed a law prohibiting the purchase of electricity from unsafe nuclear power plants. In June, the Lithuanian Seimas recognized the nuclear power plant under construction in Astravets as unsafe and threatening the national security of Lithuania.

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