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Lithuania . It should be noted that the draft was strongly criticized by
Group discussion , Tunisian School of Politics , 14 June 2013
Moscow law experts as an attempt to revise the political system of the USSR and as a document that was totally incompatible with the existing constitutional framework . There was even surprise expressed at how such a constitution could have been drafted at all . It should also be mentioned that focused action by the reform movement Sąjūdis encouraged the then Supreme Council to make one of the momentous decisions , that is the adoption of the Declaration on the National Sovereignty of Lithuania on 18 May 1989 showing only one way out of the situation – the restoration of the national sovereignty , which was the objective of the Lithuanian nation and an inalienable right of nations that could be implemented only by their self-determination . Amendments to the Constitution related to Lithuanian citizenship were made on the same day . Provision on “ common citizenship of the Union ” of Article 31 of the Constitution was repealed and now the nature and conditions for granting or rejecting the citizenship were to be defined not by the USSR , but by the Lithuanian Law on Citizenship . Rights and freedoms of citizens were defined not by the USSR , but by the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania . Article 70 of the Constitution sets that only laws adopted by the Supreme Council or the referendum are valid in Lithuania , and only those laws and