Belarusian Foreign Ministry invites Polish ambassador to talk

8 августа 2017

The reason for this was the statements made by Witold Waszczykowski, the Polish Foreign Minister, that in the future, Poland does not intend to purchase energy from the nuclear power plant that is being built in Belarus, since the project is allegedly based on "unsafe technologies". The department commented that it is obvious that this is a case of politicization of a routine issue of building a nuclear power plant in Belarus through the demonstration of so-called European solidarity by individual countries under the pressure of the Lithuanian side. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry noted that the technologies used in the construction of the Belarusian NPP are successfully used in the implementation of similar projects in such countries of the European Union as Hungary, Slovakia, Finland, and the Czech Republic.

As stressed in the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, in 2009-2013, Poland participated in the intergovernmental discussion of the results of the assessment of the impact of the future NPP on the environment provided by Belarus and did not object to the implementation of the project. The link between the alleged decision not to buy electricity produced at the Belarusian nuclear power plant and the "insecurity of technology" sounds strange considering that Poland itself is thinking over the possibility of developing nuclear power in the country, too, the Foreign Ministry said.