"We have delivered on our commitments, despite the losses that our people are suffering and at a time of such an economic fall that is hardly imaginable to people living in the old EU countries. Nevertheless, the EU is trying to find arguments to help justify its unwillingness to keep to the commitments set out in our Accession Treaty," he told the Verslo Žinios daily.
Documents and reports drawn up by the EU's institutions in recent years show attempts to turn the Ignalina closure problem into a simple issue of national nuclear safety competence within the framework of the Euratom Treaty, Švedas says.
"What is being consigned to oblivion is institutional memory and the essence of the problem, which is that Lithuania, while signing the EU Accession Treaty, committed itself to shutting down Ignalina plant for the sake of security interests of all Europeans, even though the facility could have continued to operate and bring some economic benefit to us," he said.
