During their meeting within the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus in Minsk on March 15, Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed an agreement on granting a loan to Belarus to build a nuclear plant on its territory. Atomstroiexport is the Russian group, controlled by the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom Public who is in charge of this project.
The plant with a capacity of 2400 megawatts will be built by 2020 on a site located 50 kilometers from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. According to the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Lithuania has already protested to the Belarusian authorities, arguing that Minsk did not respect the UN Convention requires the establishment of an international process of risk assessment on the environment.
The news site reports that the partisan Bielorousski Party MEP for Grünen [green] German Werner Schulz, a member of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the European Parliament, urged Moscow and Minsk to "immediately abandon this project," that he described as "cynical", given the tragedy that now Japan. 
The plant with a capacity of 2400 megawatts will be built by 2020 on a site located 50 kilometers from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. According to the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Lithuania has already protested to the Belarusian authorities, arguing that Minsk did not respect the UN Convention requires the establishment of an international process of risk assessment on the environment.
The news site reports that the partisan Bielorousski Party MEP for Grünen [green] German Werner Schulz, a member of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the European Parliament, urged Moscow and Minsk to "immediately abandon this project," that he described as "cynical", given the tragedy that now Japan.
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