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The President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, stated that an exhibition will be opened in Bad Iburg which will be named “ The Lost History of East Prussia: Wolf Children and Their Fate ”.
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* 1885 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania ( d. 1969 )
Lieutenant General Arvydas Pocius, Lithuanian Armed Forces | Lithunanian Army is invested as Chief of Defense by President of Lithuania | President Dalia Grybauskaite in 2009.
Judicial power is vested in judges appointed by the President of Lithuania and is independent of executive and legislature power.
The President of Lithuania is the head of state of the country, elected directly for a five-year term and can serve maximum of two terms consecutively.
* November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania
Politics in Lithuania was also very heated, as President Voldemaras was unpopular in some quarters, and survived an assassination attempt in Kaunas.
* September 22 – Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania ( d. 2010 )
Meeting in mid-October 1992 and encouraged by the electoral victory of former communists in Lithuania and growing resistance to President Boris Yeltsin's reforms in Russia, the Supreme Soviet solidly rejected the demand for a referendum.
U. S. President Gerald Ford also reaffirmed that US non-recognition policy of the Baltic states ' ( Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia ) forced incorporation into the Soviet Union had not changed.
* Audio interviews of two leaders of Lithuania's Singing Revolution: Vytautas Landsbergis and Valdas Adamkus, current President of the Republic of Lithuania
Rolandas Paksas (; born 10 June 1956 ) is a Lithuanian politician who was President of Lithuania from 2003 to 2004.
On 5 January 2003, he was elected President of Lithuania, after a surprise win over the incumbent Valdas Adamkus in a runoff.
He served as the first President of Lithuania from April 4, 1919 to June 19, 1920.
On April 4, 1919, the State Council of Lithuania elected Smetona the first President of the Republic of Lithuania.
Interwar 10 Litas coin featuring 1st President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona by pre-war sculptor, medallist Juozas Zikaras
In 1929, Voldemaras acted as the Godfather to the three year old Valdas Adamkus, who later became the President of Lithuania.
* April 6-Artūras Paulauskas becomes acting President of Lithuania.
* Dalia Grybauskaite ( 1991 ), President of Lithuania 2009 to present.
Signed into law by President Valdas Adamkus on June 9, 1999, the " Law on the National Anthem of the Republic of Lithuania " details when and where the national anthem is played and its performance protocols.
Renewed City Coat of Arms were granted by the President of Lithuania on May 3, 1999.
The family of current President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, hails from northern Lithuania.
* Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of the Second Polish Republic, born in Telsiai, current Lithuania,
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The cabinet of Algirdas Brazauskas resigned on May 31, 2006 as President Valdas Adamkus expressed no confidence in two of the Ministers, formerly party colleagues of Brazauskas, over ethical principles.
* 1926 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, former President
In May 1999, Vagnorius stepped down and President Valdas Adamkus asked Paksas to become the Prime Minister.
President Valdas Adamkus
Valdas Adamkus ( pronounced ; born in Kaunas, Lithuania ; November 3, 1926 ) was President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.
* Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania ( 1989 )
He was supported by outgoing President Algirdas Brazauskas and narrowly lost in the runoff to Valdas Adamkus, with Paulauskas gaining 49. 6 % of vote and Adamkus gaining 50. 4 %.
Following the impeachment of President Rolandas Paksas on 6 April 2004, Paulauskas served as acting President of Lithuania until early elections were held and a new President, Valdas Adamkus, was sworn on 12 July 2004.
In the first round on 13 June, the former President, Valdas Adamkus, led the former Prime Minister Kazimira Prunskienė.
Paksas finished second in the first round of the presidential election on 22 December, with 19. 7 %: qualifying him for a run-off against incumbent President Valdas Adamkus.
These were: Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Russian Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana and OSCE Secretary General Ján Kubiš.
President Valdas Adamkus opposed the measure on grounds that continued operation would not respect Lithuania's international commitments.
:* President: 1993 ( Algirdas Brazauskas ), 1997 ( Valdas Adamkus ), 2002 ( Rolandas Paksas-impeached 2004 ), 2004 ( Valdas Adamkus ), 2009 ( Dalia Grybauskaitė )
* For President Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania:
** Valdas Adamkus, President
President and Adamkus
President Adamkus played a key role in bringing the new centrist parties together.
V. Adamkus eventually became President.
President Adamkus meeting with Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney in Lithuania.
Adamkus also raised concerns about other Soviet activities in occupied Lithuania to United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1958, and to President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
President Adamkus, together with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Javier Solana, Boris Gryzlov and Ján Kubiš, served as a mediator during Ukraine's political crisis, when two candidates in the 2004 presidential election, Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko, each claimed victory.
President Adamkus recalled in an interview that " when I asked what we could do to help, Kuchma said the friends of the Ukrainian people should drop whatever they were doing and come to Kiev immediately .".
President Adamkus expressed the view that the war's end, in Lithuania, marked the beginning of a fifty-year Soviet occupation and repression.
President Adamkus supported an active dialogue between European Union member states and those former Soviet republics such as Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova, that are actively seeking membership in the EU.
President Adamkus was actively involved in government reorganizations in 2004 and 2006.
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