Today the visiting Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius met with Polish President Lech Kaczynski and discussed the Ukraine-Russia gas crisis and bilateral energy issues.

L. Kaczynski and A. Kubilius underlined that Russia‘s behaviour in using its energy resources as a means of political pressures actions were not acceptable. On the other hand, the European Union should take specific measures to secure the energy security of its members and show solidarity with crisis-struck neighbouring countries. Prime Minister A. Kubilius concurred with the Polish Prime Minister in his view that, in the near future, arrangements should be made to call the EU, Russian and Ukrainian Summit to tackle those urgent issues, but the event should not take place in one of conflicting parties.

The Polish President and the Lithuanian Prime Minister expressed a strong belief that the provisions on energy security embedded in the Lisbon Treaty on the Lithuanian and Polish initiative would help find solutions to similar crises; both Ministers also hoped to see the ratification of the Treaty in the near future.

Lech Kaczynski expressed a firm Polish support to the common Lithuania-Poland energy and transport infrastructure projects and encouraged the Governments of both countries to pass over to the implementation phase as soon as possible, especially regarding the construction of a new nuclear power station and the power bridge between Lithuania and Poland.