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

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Engagements

12:35 Official welcoming ceremony of President of the Republic of Slovenia Danilo Türk (Office of the President, S. Daukanto a. 3)

12:45 Official photo (Office of the President, S. Daukanto a. 3)

12:50 Tête-à-tête meeting of the Presidents of Lithuania and Slovenia (Office of the President, S. Daukanto a. 3)

13:10 Bilateral meeting of delegations headed by the Presidents of Lithuania and Slovenia (Office of the President, S. Daukanto a. 3)

13:40 Joint press conference of the Presidents of Lithuania and Slovenia (Office of the President, S. Daukanto a. 3)

16:30 President Dalia Grybauskaitė receives poet Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian National Award Laureate (Office of the President, S. Daukanto a. 3)

17:00 President Dalia Grybauskaitė presents “Twenty Years of Reestablished Independence of Lithuania” medals to signatories of the Independence Act of March 11, members of the Sąjūdis Initiative Group and members of Sąjūdis Seimas Council (Office of the President, S. Daukanto a. 3)