Lithuania’s Seimas will consider a law lifting the ban on stationing nuclear weapons in the country, DW reports.

Eighty-nine lawmakers voted in favor of considering the amendment, 11 voted against it, and another six abstained. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda announced the amendments during a visit to Berlin last week. He said the country was ready to join the alliance’s nuclear deterrence system amid Russia’s war against Ukraine. Nausėda also added that Lithuania currently has no immediate plans to deploy nuclear weapons on its territory in peacetime.

Members of the country’s ruling coalition, which introduced the bill, emphasize that repealing the constitutional provision will not affect Lithuania’s obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and other international agreements.

The bill is scheduled to be considered during the parliament’s autumn session. At present, Lithuania is one of the few NATO member states with such restrictions. “We cannot remain the weak link in the entire deterrence system,” said Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Juozas Olekas.

At the beginning of June, the Financial Times reported that Vilnius had begun talks with Washington on deploying U.S. nuclear weapons on Lithuanian territory. The talks are taking place against the backdrop of a reduction in the U.S. military presence in Europe.