Celebrating the millennium of Lithuania’s name, all the documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Lithuanian diplomatic missions– notes and letters - that are sent abroad – will be bear a sign of the millennium of Lithuania’s name. Envelopes will be sealed with a special seal.

On 9 September, new blanks dedicated to the millennium of Lithuania’s name were presented by State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deividas Matulionis during the meeting of State Secretaries at the Government office.

In total, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Lithuanian diplomatic missions send about 100,000 letters abroad and within Lithuania annually.

While preparing special blanks for the millennium of Lithuania’s name, Ministry of Foreign Affairs consulted and cooperated with the State Commission on the Millennium of the Name of Lithuania and Lithuanian Archives Department under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.

In 2009, we are celebrating the millennium anniversary since the first mention of Lithuania’s name in written sources, in the annals of Quedlinburg (Annales Quedlinburgenses), Germany.