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According to her, international fame is attracted by the attitude towards human rights, especially the rights of LGBT people and women to their bodies.
“Today is May Day of the Constitution. Constitution, which ranked second in the world after the United States and first in Europe. It was a noble and progressive document that testified to the love of Poles and Lithuanians for the spirit of freedom and democracy. Unfortunately, this progressive spurt of freedom has fallen on the rather arid and eroded soil of decades of disagreement in our then rather stagnant and shortsighted society, unable to unite in the face of foreign threats and implement the necessary reforms and implement the ceremony of Constitution of May 3, which was transmitted in the Lithuanian and Polish parliaments, said the writer.
“Today, we see similar dangers in our countries and societies: instead of close love and evangelization, we sometimes see religious fanaticism filled with hate speech and inquisitive ambitions, we also see populism and myopia, the inability to see the geopolitical landscape. broader and our future in it, “he said.
“We continue to see major human rights issues that constantly bring us international fame, in particular the guarantee of human and civil rights for LGBT people and the right of women to their own bodies,” she said.
He asked that an example be taken from the Constitution of May 3 and that he always remember what he gave.
“(…) it recognized the freedoms and rights of those who did not have them before, that is, it introduced the peasants and townspeople, it recognized them as equal participants in the life of the State and as objects of human freedom” said K. Sabaliauskaitė.
The writer received the Both Nations Award for her novel series “Silva rerum”.
On Monday, the awards were also presented to Eduard Piurk, translator working at the Chancellery of the Lithuanian Seimas, Jan Malickis, Director of the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Warsaw, and Krzysztof Czyzewski, Director of the Center for the Arts. , Cultures and National Borders in Seinai.
The Both Nations Award is awarded to individuals or groups of individuals whose activities and work have contributed significantly to the development and deepening of cooperation between the two nations.
On Monday, Lithuania and Poland jointly commemorate the 230th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of the Two Nations on May 3 and the Act of Mutual Voting.
On that occasion, a joint remote celebration of the Lithuanian and Polish parliaments was held in Vilnius and Warsaw, ceremonies were planned in the courtyard of the Royal Palace in Warsaw and a discussion on the future of Europe with the presidents of the countries in the region .
On the occasion of the anniversary, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and his first lady are visiting Poland, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moravieckis visited Vilnius on Sunday.
The Constitution of May 3 is considered the first Constitution of Europe. It was adopted by the four-year Seimas of the Republic of the Two Nations on May 3, 1791.
In Poland, May 3 is an important holiday, at that time in Lithuania it is mentioned more modestly, because the Constitution, according to some evaluations, reduced the independence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the common state with Poland.
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