There has, as I see it, been three distinct unification processes that took place in Lithuania over the latest 100 years – in February 1918, March 1990 and in January 1991. These unification processes have had an enormous impact on Lithuania as a nation, and this country could easily have been looking very differently today had it not been for the fact that the nation’s people and leaders, at these three important moments, so clearly manifested that Lithuania demanded to be a free, independent country with norms, values ​​and dreams based on the country’s long and proud historical background and the many characteristics that had made ​​this country and its people precisely the nation called Lithuania.Those qualities are what made Lithuania a great force of progress and prosperity in human history.

What is required now is for this country to again pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for own future once more.

The challenge this time is totally different from the three previous times. We are this time not challenged by threats from aggressive neighbours, but rather by internal resolution and lack of involvement within the nation’s own  population.  What we see today is almost a kind of lethargy.

The challenge is not diminished by the fact that the country’s population now is scattered all over the world.