00:00A major road connecting the three Baltic states to Poland open on Monday at a time of arising
00:08tensions between Europe and Russia. The road, known as Via Baltica, will pass through a narrow
00:14strip of land between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad called the Suwalki Gap,
00:20which has often been described as a potential target if Russia were to attack NATO.
00:30I think it's also a task for me, for the President and for our friends from Estonia and from Łotwa,
00:36to look at this project through the prism of the safety of the Baltic countries and also Poland,
00:45which, not only in the Suwalki Gap, but also in the whole Basin of the Baltic Sea,
00:51takes responsibility for the safety of the United States, but also the whole region.
00:56NATO troops could potentially move faster in aid of the Baltics by using Via Baltica.
01:04Also under construction is a companion railway project known as Rail Baltica,
01:08the first sections of which are due to be operational by 2030.
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