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Photo 4The patriots had to repeatedly defend the Lithuanian language at rallies, which took place in the summer of 2014. Photo by Irmantas Sidarevičius.
On Tuesday, four Lithuanian patriotic organizations, the Lithuanian Union of Freedom Fighters, the Lithuanian Branch of the Lithuanian Sąjūdis, the Association for Language and the Nation and the Vilnius Society, appealed to the highest Lithuanian government to protect the language of the state and the territorial integrity of the state. The address sent to the president Gitan Nausėda, the president of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilyte-Nielsen and the prime minister Ingrida Šimonyte urges not to support the aspiration of the minister of Justice Evelina Dobrovolska to establish The signatories of the patriotic organizations that have signed the petition described as The aspirations of the aforementioned politicians are unconstitutional, contrary to the oaths of a member of the Seimas and the Minister, and they ask the leaders to “make known and prosecute the violators of the oath to the Republic of Lithuania.”
“Through the Ministry of Justice, the Government and the Seimas, there are illegal preparations to restrict the constitutional status of the Lithuanian state language. First of all, the so-called National Minorities Law in the Vilnius and Klaipėda regions aims to create the necessary territorial autonomy for the Kremlin with the Polish and Russian regional languages, revive the consequences of the occupations and separate Lithuania from the legal systems from Latvia, Estonia and most other EU countries. Second, the spelling of the personal names of the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania seeks to change the alphabet of the state language, the principles of spelling and pronunciation, and damage the oldest living Indo-European language system, “it is written in speech to the country’s leaders.
Also remember that in the areas of privacy, all Lithuanian citizens are free to use a language or dialect acceptable to them. However, the authors of the appeal emphasize that the state language should be used in all Lithuanian state and self-government institutions, all Lithuanian institutions, companies and organizations. Remembered on October 21, 1999. – The declaration of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania that “the state language protects the identity of the nation, integrates the civic nation, ensures the expression of the sovereignty of the nation, the integrity of the state and its indivisibility, and the normal functioning of the state and municipal institutions. The state language is an important guarantee of the equality of citizens, since it allows all citizens to communicate with state and municipal institutions on an equal footing, to exercise their rights and legitimate interests. “
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