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According to the project, Lukiškės Square in Vilnius should “carry out representative, commemorative and social (cultural and recreational) state functions of Lithuanian freedom fighters”, and the project decisions should include and coordinate these three functions.
The commemorative accents of Lukiškės Square should include and reflect the struggles for the independence of Lithuania and the memory of the dead fighters, 1863-1864. the place of execution of the rebels and the commemoration of this uprising, “the project reads.
Its initiators propose to use and manage Lukiškės Square in accordance with the following principles:
- The use and management of Lukiškės Square must comply with its memorandum status, guarantee seriousness and due respect for the memory of the fighters killed for the independence of Lithuania and those killed in 1863-1864. rebels
- The use and management of Lukiškės Square may not be contrary to public order and good morals.
- The use and management of Lukiškės Square for recreational purposes cannot overshadow its commemorative role, Lithuania’s struggles for independence, and the dead fighters killed in 1863-1864. The goals of commemorating the rebels.
The bill on the layout of the capital’s Lukiškės Square was registered by the rulers Seimas Ramūnas Karbauskis, Gediminas Kirkilas, Arvydas Nekrošius, Andrius Palionis, Valius Ąžuolas, Rimantas Sinkevičius, Aušrinė Norkienė, Agnė Širinskienė and one member of the Grupo members of the Vitas Group Members Association.
R. Karbauskis, the leader of the “peasants”, announced on Facebook that such a project will appear on Wednesday. He described the decision of the Vilnius municipal government to establish a temporary beach on Lukiškės Square as immoral and deplorable.
“The beach of R.Šimašius becomes a symbol of the desecration of the square that recalls the suffering of the nation,” he said, although he had not reacted so sharply to the idea before.
“The decision is very strange, but the mayor of Vilnius is as strange as the decision.” R.Karbauskis commented to journalists at Seimas on Tuesday.
Vilnius City Municipality project to place a sandy beach on Lukiškės Square, opposite the former KGB building outraged and conservative – asked the mayor of the capital, Remigijus Šimašius, to explain why the initiative was not agreed and voted on by the municipal council.
The chairman of the Lithuanian State Language Commission, Audrys Antanaitis, criticized the English inscriptions visible on the beach: they allegedly show that “R. Šimašius deliberately spat in the Lithuanian language.”
Ernesta Čičiurkaitė / 15min photo / Mayor of Vilnius Remigijus Šimašius
Speaking of the beach in one of the main squares in Vilnius, the mayor connected it to life and freedom in the city.
“For some, it is just seriousness, concentration, parades and representation. For others, it is also the joy of living, the happiness that we are free, and our children can rest freely in the free and creative capital of a free country,” he said. R. Šimašius above.
The beach at Lukiškės Square in the capital will cost the municipality around 60,000. private project partners will spend the same amount.
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