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Belarus still has time to drop plans for nuclear power plant, Lithuanian ambassador says

 

Belarus still has time to drop its plans for building a nuclear power plant near the Lithuanian border, Edminas Bagdonas, the Minsk-based ambassador of Lithuania, told reporters in Vilnius on July 20.

The diplomat said that he had seen the construction site for the plant on his way from Minsk to Vilnius on Tuesday. "Construction is underway, a railroad track is being laid," news site delfi.lt quoted him as saying. "The pace of work has not slowed down."

"A project is underway when work to lay concrete, water pipelines begins. And when I travel past so far, I see a railroad track being built. They still have time to build an Akropolis [Lithuanian shopping center] or a fish farm there," Mr. Bagdonas said.

He noted that the Lithuanian government had communicated its position on the project to Belarus "at all possible levels."

"We are not questioning their right to build or not build. But we believe that the choice is not based purely on economic considerations," Mr. Bagdonas was quoted as saying. // BelaPAN