Lithuania moves to lift constitutional ban on nuclear weapons deployment (defence24.com)
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- Lithuania's political leadership agrees to repeal Article 137 of the Constitution banning nuclear weapons deployment.
- Disagreement only on procedure: parliamentary vote vs. referendum.
- Context: French proposal for European nuclear deterrence and US plans for nuclear sharing on NATO's eastern flank.
"Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda announced that the country's top political leaders have agreed on the need to remove the constitutional provision (Article 137) that prohibits deployment of nuclear weapons on national territory. Nearly all political factions support repeal, with disagreement only on procedure: parliamentary vote versus referendum. Nausėda noted Lithuania is the only NATO member with such a ban, and Finland recently lifted a similar restriction."
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