Some sources doubt if the ruling coalition's final decision on the future of the Visaginas project will be reflected in the working group's report. Other sources say that the document speaks about nuclear energy in abstract terms, but not specifically about the Visaginas project, the paper writes.
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is expected to inform President Dalia Grybauskaitė about the preliminary conclusions drawn by the working group, which is headed by Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič, on Monday morning. The document will then be discussed by the government's strategic committee before it is submitted to the parliamentary groups of the ruling coalition during a joint meeting to be held in the evening.
Update 11 AM: Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius informed President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday about preliminary conclusions drawn up by a working group that is working on Lithuania's updated National Energy Strategy, but their spokespeople declined to comment on the details of the meeting.
"The prime minister presented the strategy to the president for the first time. However, we are making no comments at the moment, because the document will be presented to the government's strategic committee at 2 PM and to the ruling coalition partners at 5 PM," Butkevičius' spokeswoman Evelina Butkutė-Lazdauskienė told BNS.
The president's spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė also said that she would not comment for now.
"We want to wait until the conclusions are formally presented to the public," she told BNS.
