Order to remove non-lithuanian street signs was plead by the government's representative in Vilnius County. Mr Audrius Skaistys states that the bilingual street signs are used in the following towns: Mickūnai, Maišiagala, Avižieniuose, Nemėžyje, Rudaminoje, Kenoje, Čekoniškėse, Skurbutėnuose, Skaidiškėse and Rastinėnai.
Court authorized administrative director of Vilnius district municipality to replace the unlawful street signs within 10 days. If the Vilnius district municipality wouldn't enforce the judgment the government's representative in Vilnius County will appeal in the court.
Neseniai premjeras Algirdas Butkevičius irgi pareiškė, kad " (...) lentelių, kurios yra dviem kalbomis rašomos, turėtų nebūti, jeigu gerbiame savo valstybę, savo Konstituciją ir savo valstybės įstatymus". Primename, kad Vilniaus rajone gyvena daugiau kaip 60 proc. lenkų tautybės asmenų.
Not so long ago, the Lithuanian PM Mr Algirdas Butkevicius had stated " (...) bilingual street signs are to be removed, as long as we respect our state, our constitution and also our laws". For example, out of 34,600 residents of the Šalčininkai district, some 26,900 said during the 2011 census that they were of Polish nationality, and in Vilnius County 60% of the inhabitants are Polish.
Fines for the bilingual sings have been appointed several times for the Mrs Liucina Kotlovska, but she states that "the signs are on privately-owned houses. There are no normative acts on removal of signs from a private house".
For the next two days Mr. Sikorski is to stay in Lithuania (6th and 7th of September), because of the non-formal summit of the EU Ministers of the Foreign Affairs.
It is worth recalling, that during the visit of His Exellency Lech Kaczyński, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) has refused to pass the bill that would allow Poles in Lithuania to write their surnames in original language.
