Rasa Juknevičienė, Lithuania’s Minister of National Defence.

Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Rasa Jukneviciene last week met with Gabor Iklody, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. In the meeting the Lithuanian Minister underscored that expertise and consultations of the Energy Security Centre established in Lithuania could be instrumental to the Alliance. 

“We have generated quite a number of ideas how we could serve for the Alliance’s benefit. Our pursuit is to have the Energy Security Centre certified as NATO Centre of Excellence”, said R. Jukneviciene.

When addressing Lithuania’s issues of energy security the Minister expressed concerns about the plans to build nuclear energy plants in neighbouring areas (Belarus and Kaliningrad). She affirmed that one of Lithuanian Government’s priorities was to achieve energy independence from the Russian gas monopoly, therefore Lithuania sought to implement the third energy package of the European Union designed to separate production, supply and transfer activities from ownership rights. 

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