In her message of congratulations, the President noted that Lithuania and Switzerland had developed a close bilateral relationship based on two decades of consistent and trusted cooperation. She underlined that the people of both countries continued discovering and forming by mutual initiative new cultural and historical connections.
"I firmly believe that in the years ahead we will keep on working together on issues of key importance for our both nations and Europe as a whole, forging ever stronger country-to-country and people-to-people contacts through an inclusive dialogue and new business, research, cultural, and other projects," the President wrote in her message of congratulations.
Dalia Grybauskaitė wished the President of the Swiss Confederation and the people of his country continued strength, success and happiness.