Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas is leaving for Brussels on a working visit on Wednesday, 17 September, and is scheduled to meet heads of the European Commission, the European Parliament and NATO to discuss energy, international security, and climate change issues.
Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas is leaving for Brussels on a working visit on Wednesday, 17 September, and is scheduled to meet heads of the European Commission, the European Parliament and NATO to discuss energy, international security, and climate change issues.
During the visit, Prime Minister Kirkilas is going to meet President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and Commander of the US European Command (USEUCOM) and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) for NATO and the commanding officer of Allied Command Operations (ACO) General Bantz John Craddock; the Prime Minister is also to visit the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.
Energy security in Lithuania post 2009, Lisbon Treaty, EU-Russia relations, European energy policy, climate change, European Neighbourhood policy, and other topical issues will be on the meetings’ agenda.
During his meetings, Kirkilas is going to raise problems that Lithuania will face after the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, and is going to underline that Lithuania is an energy island without any energy links with the European states. With respect to the EU-Russia relations, the Prime Minister is going to express his support for the Extraordinary European Council Conclusions of 1 September 2008.
Kirkilas is returning to Vilnius in the evening of the same day.