Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant

Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that the public must be informed about the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction close to Belarus' border with Lithuania and reiterates Vilnius' demand that the project meet the Espoo Convention standards and that risk tests be performed under the ...

Two-thirds of the Lithuanian population think that the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus threatens the country's safety, according to a RAIT opinion poll commissioned by BNS.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, currently on a visit in Poland, says he sees a good possibility to improve the bilateral relations, which are, in his opinion, marred by the wrong stereotypes over the situation of national minorities.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis met with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, in Warsaw on Monday night.

As part of efforts to force Belarus to ensure that its Astravyets nuclear plant is built safely and according to international standards, Lithuania's authorities plan to restrict the transmission capacity for electricity from Belarus and to impose a transmission charge on power imports from it, as w...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Monday evening is leaving for Warsaw to meet with his Polish and Baltic counterparts.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday will meet with her Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who is coming to Lithuania to visit Portuguese troops deployed in the country.

Members of the Lithuanian Cabinet agreed on Thursday to keep up the pressure on Belarus over the safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant, but at the same time to seek to develop good economic relations with the neighboring country, an advisor to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said.

An Inaugural President Valdas Adamkus conference Restoring Regional Leadership took place at the Vilnius University on August 22. The Conference was hosted by Lithuania's former President Valdas Adamkus, and focused on Ukraine's future, the region's energy security and Europe-US relations. Read the ...

Lithuania's former President Valdas Adamkus on Tuesday called for convening a meeting of the region's political leaders on energy issues.

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is meeting with his Latvian counterpart, Inara Murniece, in the Latvian seaside resort of Jūrmala on Thursday to discuss the positions on the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) under construction in Belarus.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė will Monday join her Baltic counterparts in for a meeting with United States Vice-President Mike Pence in Tallinn due to address defense and energy matters.

Lithuania's Dalia Grybauskaitė and her Baltic counterparts will meet with US Vice-President Mike Pence in Tallinn, pledging to address US military assistance, cyber security, the Belarusian nuclear power plant in Astravyets and supplies of US liquefied gas to Europe.

After Latvia's foreign minister restated the country's plans not to block electricity generated by the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP), Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius does not rule out the move is due to economic reasons.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says he was assured by his Swedish colleague that the Swedish MP's initiative to block criticism for Belarus at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) did not reflect the entire country's position.

Exceptionally few human decisions will lead to consequences measured in a dozen thousand or a hundred thousand years, which is the time to be needed for radioactive waste from the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant to decay before it reaches the level of naturally-occurring background radiation and will...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė told US President Donald Trump at the summit of Central and Eastern European leaders in Warsaw on Thursday about the importance of regional security and the threats of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).