Lithuania is up in arms against a recent gas pipeline agreement between Germany and Russia. The pipeline under the Baltic Sea would disturb stockpiles of Hitler's chemical weapons lying on the bed of the Baltic Sea and would lead to an environmental disaster, warns Lithuanian prime minister Algirdas Brazauskas. Analysts view the development as the beginning of a confrontation between Baltic states and Poland on one side and Russia-Germany energy and political alliance on the other.

"Being members of the Convention on the Protection of the Baltic Sea, we will demand compliance with all requirements