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The Vytis monument on Lukiškės Square in Vilnius should be erected in 2026, the Vilnius City Council proposes.
This term is foreseen in the action plan presented by the capital city to the National Land Service. It was drafted in accordance with the previous government. The municipality undertook to submit a detailed plan for the implementation of the Lukiškės square law within four months.
It was introduced by Vilnius Deputy Mayor Tomas Gulbinas during a meeting of the Seimas Culture Committee on Wednesday.
“We would think that in Lukiškės square it would probably be possible to see several functional areas, both the commemorative area and the recreational areas and others that the city would need,” said the deputy mayor.
Therefore, the municipality proposes to announce new creative workshops on the planning and zoning of the square by March 2022, and to hold a contest for the monument project by 2024.
According to the city authorities, not only should the square-shaped square on one side of Gediminas avenue be seen in relation to the layout of Lukiškės square, but the opposite square should also be seen, where there are currently two monuments to the victims of the Soviet occupation. be included in the arrangement.
The municipality proposes to form an inter-institutional working group and prepare guidelines on the management of Lukiškės square before May.
“Opportunities must be found like the current situation nunulinti“to find a new solution based on unity,” T. Gulbin said during the Culture Committee meeting.
Liberal member Arminas Lydeka, a member of the committee, raised the question whether it would not be worth repealing the law on the memorial status of Lukiškės Square in Vilnius adopted by the Seimas during the previous term as opposed to the public.
The conservative Vytautas Juozapaitis, president of the Culture Commission, considered that it would be possible to talk about it if the president showed such an initiative, since he signed the law last year.
According to the Deputy Minister of Culture, Rimantas Mikaitis, the working group should also offer a legal solution to the situation, as court decisions are currently in force.
“Obviously, we need to find a solution that unites society and does not warm it up, as it did last summer,” said the deputy minister.
Last summer, the Seimas passed a special law on Lukiškės Square, which establishes that it is the main representative square of the country with the Vytis Monument, the space must be managed seriously and with due respect to the combatants and insurgents, and its use not it must be the opposite. to public order and good manners.
The artificial beach installed in the square by the capital municipality last summer was outraged and the then rulers offered to hand over the Lukišk tos square to the Lithuanian Resistance and Genocide Research Center for supervision. However, at the end of September, the municipality agreed with the Government that the square would remain in the hands of the capital for the time being, if a detailed plan for the implementation of the Lukiškės square law is prepared within four months.
Since the restoration of independence there have been discussions about the layout and commemorative accents of Lukiškės Square in Vilnius.
Author Jūratė Skėrytė
