Former Lithuanian Prime Minister, leader of Lithuanian PeopleХs party Casimira Prunskene considers Baltic NPP, which is going to be constructed in 2016 in Kaliningrad region, to be able to eliminate the power inefficiency appeared as a result of the closing of Ignalinsk NPP. 

On Tuesday representatives of Lithuanian business visited the construction site of Baltic nuclear plant in Kaliningrad region, the works at which had begun in February of the last year. For the first time in native nuclear industry private investors, among them foreign ones, were proposed to participate in the project.

ТQuite a sensible discussion on the subject has begun in Lithuania, but on the other hand a dialogue on the upper levels, on the levels of the government, is also supposed to be. We have assured in the plantХs perspective, reliability and safety, which is of great importance for our neighbours. Also it is important for Baltic acreage including Lithuania to be provided with the power, among others generated by Baltic plant, cheaply and reliablyУ, Prunskene said to the journalists after her visit to the plant.

She added that together with the representatives of Lithuanian construction companies the Lithuanian delegation estimated the possibilities for the construction of the objects of infrastructure Р kindergartens, schools, outpatientsХ departments and dwelling-houses.

ТWe see the scope for collaboration and we are sure that there is much to be done and much to realize the accumulated experience. Quite a reasonable discussion on the point has began in Lithuania and our experts state that Kaliningrad region needs the plant and it should be constructed but we should not bother the neighbours, but on the other hand a dialogue at the upper levels, at the levels of the government, is also supposed to beУ,  the former Prime Minister said. 

In his turn, Kaliningrad region Governor Nikolay Tsukanov noted that Lithuanian business was sure in NPP safety as well.

ТThe attention to Casimira PrunskeneХs project and the desire of the Lithuanians to take part in that enormous construction stand for the fact that our neighbors have less and less fears concerning the plant safety. We will control the construction and further operation of BNPP togetherУ, Tsukanov said.