"Wandering members of the government who speak different languages undermine Lithuania's international image and make an impression of it being an unreliable country," the president told journalists on Friday.
On Thursday, Minister Vėsaitė said in an interview that Lithuania did not need a nuclear reactor offered by Japanese company Hitachi as it is too big fro the country's energy needs. She also stated that Lithuania could have implemented the EU's Third Energy Package, directed against Gazprom's monopoly, at a slower pace. Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius later commented that Vėsaitė was not familiar with the government's strategy and therefore voiced her own personal opinions.
The Government of Lithuania plans to decide whether to continue with the Visaginas nuclear power plant project in the coming months. Based on the original plan, the three Baltic states would build the plant in cooperation with Japan's Hitachi.
