Leadership of the Ministry of National Defence and the Lithuanian Armed Forces and Lithuanian soldiers will celebrate the 103rd anniversary of Lithuanian statehood restoration and the 72nd anniversary of the Declaration of the Council of the Lithuanian Liberation Movement – the statement of the will of the Lithuanian people to restore an independent democratic state, alongside with titanic efforts to achieve it.
“The Declaration of the Council of the Lithuanian Liberation Movement is a document of monumental historical and political meaning to Lithuania, it marked the uninterrupted continuity of the existence of the state. Signatories to the Declaration also supported the vision of Lithuania as a democratic republic. The principles of independence, human rights and social justice laid out in the document and later consolidated and elaborated in the Constitution of independent and democratic Republic of Lithuania built on the brand new, at that time, international agreement establishing the principles of human rights and personal liberties which retained its relevance until this day, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Minister of National Defence Anušauskas Anušauskas says on February 15 , 72nd anniversary of the Declaration of the Council of the Lithuanian Liberation Movement and the eve of the 103rd anniversary of Lithuanian statehood restoration day.
Commemorative events will include flower tributes, minute of silence and gun salute in the honour of signatories to the Declaration of the Council of the Lithuanian Liberation Movement of 16 February 1949, honouring of signatories to the Act of Independence of 16 February 1918, state awards ceremony, celebration of a Holy Mass, etc.
February 16 celebration in 2020 (photo credit: Alfredas Pliadis, MoD)
