Asked whether he intended to propose go back to the spelling of non-Lithuanian first and last names, Butkevicius said in an interview published in the Veidas weekly magazine on Monday:
„A commission is currently working and will submit proposals. The bill on the spelling of non-Lithuanian names was submitted in the last tenure but was rejected. What do I think? I think nothing needs to be changed, the existing scheme is suitable,“ Butkevicius said.
Under the current rules, first and last names in document cannot be spelled in non-Lithuanian characters, however, there have been proposals to change the procedures in response to requests from the Polish minority and argumentation that the existing scheme caused trouble for Lithuanian citizens who have married foreigners.
In its program, the current center-left government of A.Butkevicius pledged „to resolve the issue of name spelling in ID documents and the issue of spelling of street and location names in compliance with the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.“
