President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus sent congratulations to the President of the Republic of Finland Tarja Kaarina Halonen on Finland's national holiday, the Independence Day.

“Our two neighboring countries have been linked by cordial relations since the reestablishment of Lithuanian independence. Today we continue to maintain close ties within the single family of European nations - the European Union.  In the face of global and regional challenges, the joint activities and performance of Lithuania and Finland to attain greater well-being and prosperity in the Baltic Sea region are more important today than ever before,” President Adamkus writes in his letter of congratulations.