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Sasha Vakulina

Lithuania moves to lift nuclear weapons ban, following Finland's lead

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said the Baltic country’s top political leaders had agreed that a constitutional ban on the domestic deployment of nuclear weapons should be removed.

Nauseda said Article 137 of Lithuania’s constitution, which explicitly prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction and the establishment of foreign military bases on Lithuanian territory had become “outdated” and “obsolete,” according to a report by a state broadcaster LRT.

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