"You offer us yet another opportunity to put ourselves and our civic mind to the test of time. Your example makes us raise our standards higher and higher," President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė said at the ceremony of presenting state awards.
"You offer us yet another opportunity to put ourselves and our civic mind to the test of time. Your example makes us raise our standards higher and higher," President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė said at the ceremony of presenting state awards - orders and medals - to Lithuanian and foreign nationals for their merits to the Republic of Lithuania and for promoting the name of Lithuania, on the occasion of July 6, the Statehood Day (King Mindaugas Coronation Day).
The President also presented the Life Saving Cross to those who displayed courage, ingenuity and resolve and saved other people despite danger to their own lives.
"A life saved is a universe and tomorrow saved. For this, I thank you most humbly and sincerely," the President said at the ceremony.
President Grybauskaitė invited all those who received honourable state awards to continue making the state and its people stronger, both spiritually and morally, to impart hope and meaning to our aspirations and to bring us together on the path towards tomorrow. (Full text of the President's address at the state awards ceremony is available at http://www.prezidentas.lt/en/activities/speeches.html)