Inauguration of Honorary Consul Dalia Giedrimienė on February 16, 2025

The Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Connecticut was opened on February 16, 2025 in Hartford, Connecticut, with Dalia Giedrimienė inaugurated as the first Honorary Consul, by the Consul General of Lithuania to New York, Dovydas Špokauskas. This event appropriately took place on the day that Lithuania celebrates its restoration of independence, which occurred on February 16, 1918. On that day, the Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Reinstating Independence of Lithuania, proclaiming the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania that would be governed by democratic principles.