| | 08/01/01 -- Lithuanian President Indignant at Forest Chopping for Statoil Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Adamkus was indignant at the Druskininkai municipality instructions to chop the pine trees down in the stand of trees in Druskininkai where the Lietuva Statoil company, subsidiary of the Norwegian Statoil, owner of a chain of filling stations, plans to set up a filling station operation, presidential aide Darius Kuolys told BNS. |
 | | According to Lietuva Statoil executives, the Druskininkai municipality took the legal initiative on their own, and that under a coordinated action agreement between Statoil and Druskininkai, the municipality is responsible for preparing the site for construction. |
 | | In his letter to the acting prime minister Adamkus then said he expected the Gentvilas-led cabinet to revise the government decision of May 28 on the transferring of a non-agricultural plot of land in Druskininkai to the resort's municipality and take account of the ecology requirements and arguments advanced by the town's residents. |
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