5 May 2011
During her official visit to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Mrs
Irena Degutienë, Speaker of the Seimas, said that the leadership of Luxembourg
was well aware of Lithuania’s concerns over the nuclear projects planned at the
Lithuanian border, which were developed with insufficient transparency and without
properly informing the neighbouring states and society on them. The Speaker of
the Seimas made this statement following the meetings with Mr Laurent
Mosar, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, and Mr Jean
Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg.
“Luxembourg’s officials highlighted that they fully understood
Lithuania’s concerns over the nuclear power plant construction projects
implemented at our border because several nuclear power plants were also
located just outside the Duchy of Luxembourg raising quite a lot of doubts and
uncertainties about their safety”, Mrs Degutienë said.
The Speaker of the Seimas underscored that Luxembourg’s side had
approved of Lithuania’s position to seek the adherence to the strictest safety
requirements and international conventions in the area of all nuclear energy development.
“Lithuania’s goal is that the projects for the construction of
nuclear power plants planned in Belarus and Russia’s Kaliningrad Region are
implemented strictly adhering to all international nuclear safety, radiation
protection and environmental standards, in particular the Convention on
Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context”, Mrs Degutienë
spoke.
The Speaker of the Seimas thanked Luxembourg’s leaders for their
support and called on them to make joint efforts for the transparency and publicity
of these and similar projects.
“The nuclear power plants are constructed at the external border of
the European Union and extremely close to the capital of Lithuania. Therefore,
it is urgent to draw the attention of all European Union Member States and the
European Commission as well as international organisations to the lack of
transparency of and information on these projects,” Ms Degutienë said.
Secretariat of the Speaker of the Seimas
Juozas Ruzgys, Adviser to Speaker of the Seimas, Tel: (+370 5 ) 239
602; 698 42073
