Lithuanian World Community

BNS – The Commission of the Seimas and the Lithuanian World Community on Friday will start preparations for a new referendum on preservation of Lithuanian citizenship.

On 13 December, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Australia Gediminas Varvuolis opened the Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Darwin. Egle Garrick, an active member of the Lithuanian World Community, was appointed as the Honorary Consul of Lithuania in the Northern Territory.

Dalia Henke, chair of the Lithuanian World Community, is proposing expanding separate cases when dual citizenship is possible after the dual citizenship referendum failed in Lithuania in May due to a lack of votes.

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, called on Wednesday for continued efforts to amend the Constitution to allow dual citizenship to more Lithuanians.

After the Sunday referendum on expanding dual citizenship failed to receive sufficient support, Dalia Henke, chair of the Lithuanian World Community, says the question for a possible new referendum should be put in a simpler way.

If the attempt to amend the Constitution regarding dual citizenship during the May 12 referendum fails, Lithuania should prepare for a new one, the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs said during a sitting of the Commission of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian World Commun...

A joint commission of the Seimas and the Lithuanian World Community (LWC) is starting its meeting in Vilnius on Tuesday, with May's dual citizenship referendum being a key issue on the agenda, the parliament said.

The XVI Lithuanian World Community (PLB) Seimas has elected Dalia Henke for a second term as its chairwoman. The new management will be comprised of Lithuanian community representatives from three continents, according to a press release from the PLB.

The Lithuanian World Community (LWC) asks the Seimas to override President Dalia Grybauskaitė's veto on amendments lowering the yes-vote threshold for a dual citizenship referendum.

Dalia Henke of Germany has been reelected as chairwoman of the Lithuanian World Community (LWC).

Hopes are fading for a positive dual citizenship referendum in Lithuania after President Dalia Grybauskaitė vetoed amendments to the Referendum Law, lowering the threshold for such a referendum, the head of the Lithuanian World Community says.

A referendum on dual citizen will take place in Lithuania and it will need a lot of focus, Dalia Henke, head of the Lithuanian World Community, says.

The Commission for Coordination of Affairs of Lithuanians Living Abroad is meeting on Tuesday for the first time in two years.

The Lithuanian World Community (LWC) expect the Constitutional Court to rule in favor of the Seimas' decision to lower the yes-vote threshold for a dual citizenship referendum.

The Lithuanian parliament's working group is discussing two alternative formulations of the question of a dual citizenship referendum, both of which would allow keeping one's Lithuanian citizenship acquired by birth.

Lithuania's leaders need to choose the way of legalizing dual citizenship and Lithuanians living abroad will support that decision, representatives of the Lithuanian World Community said on Friday.

World Lithuanians are calling on the Seimas and government to launch a campaign for a referendum to legalize multiple citizenship.