Lithuania's Energy Independence from Russia

It was the first meeting,

and for us it was a huge question

about the gas price from Russia.

We depended fully on gas supplies from Russia.

And we have been paying about 30-40%

more than Germany was paying, for example.

For a neighbouring country, where the pipelines are some 2,000 kilometres closer,

and we're paying so much.

In discussions it was clear that it's about obedience,

it's about surrendering in,

it's about the list.

He read me what Lithuania is supposed to do,

and it was clear that with neighbouring countries

you kneel or you enemy, and you have nothing in between.

So of course I was not able to accept these requests.

After this meeting I understood that Lithuania

needs to get rid of dependency on energy from Russia,

and we went very fast to build a LNG terminal.

We did this first in Europe at that time,

in 2014 already we had, by the end of 2014 we had a LNG terminal,

which allowed us fully to get dependency from Russian gas and gas supply.