LITUANUS
LITHUANIAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
 
Volume 36, No.2 - Summer 1990
Editor of this issue: Antanas V. Dundzila
ISSN 0024-5089
Copyright © 1990 LITUANUS Foundation, Inc.
Lituanus

ACT ON THE RESTORATION OF THE LITHUANIAN STATE

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, expressing the will of the Nation, resolves and solemnly proclaims that the execution of the sovereign power of the Lithuanian State, heretofore constrained by alien forces in 1940, is restored, and henceforth Lithuania is once again an independent state.

The February 16, 1918, Act of Independence of the Supreme Council of Lithuania and the May 16, 1920, Constituent Assembly Resolution on the restoration of a democratic Lithuanian State have never lost their legal force and are the constitutional foundation of the Lithuanian State.

The territory of Lithuania is integral and indivisible, and the Constitution of any other state has no jurisdiction within it.

The Lithuanian State emphasizes its adherance to universally recognized principles of international law, recognizes the principle of inviolability of borders as formulated in Helsinki in 1976 in the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and guarantees rights of individuals, citizens and ethnic communities.

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, expressing sovereign power, by this act begins to achieve the State's full sovereignty.

 

Vytautas Landsbergis
Chairman of the Supreme Council
of the Republic of Lithuania

Liudvikas Sabutis
Secretary of the Supreme Council
of the Republic of Lithuania

Vilnius, March 11, 1990