Speeches

New Year Greetings from President Dalia Grybauskaitė

Dear Fellow People of Lithuania,

As we celebrate the New Year with joy and excitement, I wish to extend my greetings to you all.

This past year was difficult, but we came through with more life experience and wisdom. We can now look at ourselves and our pursuits more honestly. We can reflect on what each of us has done to build an open, tolerant and fair Lithuania.

Let us look back at 2009 without hard feelings. Let us remember the Millennium Odyssey, the Tricolor's Global March, the Forest of One Thousand Oaks that we planted, the World Lithuanian Song Festival, and the wave of emotion which engulfed us when we rose together - wherever we were in the world - to sing "Lithuania, Our Homeland".

Let us continue to stand in solidarity. Let us be collected and deliberate as we seek daring solutions and resolute economic reforms to get our country back on its feet. I see signs of Lithuania's recovery and I firmly believe that next year our major difficulties will be overcome.

If we all work together for the good of Lithuania, we will prevail. So let us have confidence in our own strength.

My best wishes to all of you fellow people in Lithuania! I also send my greetings to Lithuanians across the world whose love for homeland is so strong. I wish you resilience, optimism and success. May love of life, joy and fulfillment be with you forever.

Happy New Year!

Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania

Contacts

Letter

Letter to the President of the Republic of Lithuania

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Engagements

10:00 President attends a solemn sitting at the Seimas on the occasion of March 11, the Day of Restoration of Lithuania’s Independence (Seimas, Gedimino pr. 53)

12:00 President participates in the three Baltic States’ flag-hoisting ceremony and watches a parade of the Lithuanian Armed Forces on the Independence Square

13:30 Holy Mass (Vilnius Cathedral)

15:00 President receives heads of foreign states and other foreign guests (Office of the President, S. Daukanto a. 3)