Lithuanian Minister of Energy Arvydas Sekmokas said at an energy investment convention yesterday that Russian and Belarusian plans to build two nuclear power plants won’t stop the Visaginas project.

Russia is set to build a nuclear power plant this year in the Kaliningrad exclave, squeezed between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic coast. Meanwhile Belarus is seeking to build a nuclear power plant, too and both may come online before the Visaginas starts operating in 2016.