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The resolution received 66 votes in favor, 2 against and 7 abstentions. Protection ”.
The resolution calls on Minsk to suspend the commercial commissioning of the power plant until Belarus implements the recommendations of all EU security experts and adequately informs the Belarusian public and neighboring countries about the measures taken.
For its part, the European Commission is asked to “work as closely as possible with the Belarusian authorities to stop the commercial start-up of the plant until all the EU recommendations on stress tests have been fully implemented.”
At the next plenary session of the European Parliament, on February 11. there will be a debate on this issue and the final adoption of the resolution.
The text of the resolution adopted by the EP ITRE committee, adopted today, among other things, expresses concern about the location of the Astravas power station near the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
The text deplores the fact that the project is being implemented despite protests from Belarusian citizens and that members of the Belarusian public have been illegally persecuted and detained to publicize the construction process of the Astrave power plant.
The Commission and EU nuclear safety experts are urged to “urge” Belarus to implement all safety recommendations without delay. It is also noted that despite the joint agreement of the Baltic States to suspend commercial electricity trade with Belarus, it is still possible for electricity produced in Belarus to enter the EU market through the Russian grid.
Therefore, the ITRE Committee “supports efforts to explore possible measures to prevent commercial imports of electricity from third-country nuclear facilities that do not meet EU-recognized safety levels, including the Astrave nuclear power plant.”
Served the request
A petition with more than 12,000 people was also presented to the European Parliament on Thursday. signatures against the Astrava nuclear power plant. The signing of the petition was initiated by Sąjūdis, which unites civil society, against the Astrava nuclear power plant, and among the signatories are not only citizens of Lithuania, Belarus, but also of other European countries and the United States that do not support the unsafe Astrave nuclear power plant. Among them are the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexeyevich, the former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and the American Yale University professor Timothy D. Snyder.
A total of 12,073 citizens signed the petition “On the closure of the unsafe Astrava nuclear power plant (the first reactor), the ban on importing electricity generated by this power plant to the EU or associated countries and the acceleration of the synchronization of the Baltic power grid with the continental European network “.
The petition on the Astrava nuclear power plant will soon be considered in the committees of the European Parliament. After consideration, the European Parliament will adopt a resolution on the Astrava nuclear power plant.
“Lithuania’s Astrava petition – as if Lithuania – to Europe like Europe – had become a body, is beginning to live. The problem of the threat of the Astrava nuclear power plant is no longer new. We’ve made it through the years, and it’s a new situation, even though the bully is already casting his monster. If the movie “Chernobyl” had been screened in Lithuania during those years, today we could have a million signatures. We will continue to demand that the location of the Astravas power plant be changed before a major disaster strikes, ”says Vytautas Landsbergis, honorary president of Sąjūdis against the Astravas nuclear power plant.
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