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		A special commission was set up to look into the affair.
		On 2 December, the commission released its findings, and its chairman Aloyzas Sakalas presented a summary.
		Paksas had placed himself in a “vulnerable position”--and taking into account the president’s role in domestic and foreign policy, the affair “represents a threat to Lithuania’s national security.” The next day Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas and Seimas Speaker Arturas Paulauskas both urged the president to resign.
	www.lithuaniangenealogy.org /labas/december.html (11288 words)

	Reforming Legal Aid in Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aloyzas Sakalas, Chairman of the Lithuanian Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs, made a ringing call for reform: “We need to have immediate, targeted action….
		Aloyzas Sakalas, Chairman of the Lithuanian Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, emphasized the inter-departmental nature of legal aid provision, vital to creating an open society.
		Aloyzas Sakalas, Chairman of the Lithuanian Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs, made a ringing call for immediate steps to adopt reform: “We need to have immediate, targeted action….
	www.justiceinitiative.org /activities/ncjr/atj/lithuania/lithuania_report?preprint=1 (3547 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| MPs press to impeach president linked with gangsters
		Rolandas Paksas, a former stunt pilot, was described as a threat to national security in a report by a committee of MPs in the Baltic state.
		Aloyzas Sakalas, the head of the inquiry, said it was time for Mr Paksas to assume responsibility and resign.
		Mr Sakalas claimed yesterday that the president had leaked sensitive information and allowed a firm that is suspected of being a front for Russian intelligence to influence his decisions.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/02/wlith02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/12/02/ixportal.html (531 words)

	European Parliament member suggests launching TV, radio stations in Lithuania for broadcasting to Belarus :: Charter'97 ...
		As Aloyzas Sakalas told reporters in Vilnius on Wednesday, the matter was under discussion at a meeting of the EP Socialist group in Strasbourg.
		The lawmaker noted that democratization would be possible only if all people living in Belarus have access to independent media outlets, the Belarusian service of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.
		Sakalas said the Belarusian government would have no grounds to accuse Lithuania of deteriorating bilateral relations in the event the European Union provides funds for launching such media in that country.
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2004/12/23/litva (324 words)

	The Daily News Online
		Paksas theoretically could be a candidate for his old job, but would be prohibited from running if he winds up facing criminal charges.
		Aloyzas Sakalas, chairman of the parliament's legal affairs committee, said it would be up to the state prosecutor to decide on criminal charges.
		But he said removing him from office was the most important response.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2004/04/07/nation_world/news03.txt (734 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Report slams Lithuania president
		The chairman of the commission drawing the report said Mr Paksas himself had been responsible for at least one information leak.
		The investigators say they confirmed the contents of an earlier intelligence report, which alleged the ties with the mafia and Russian secret service - and said Lithuania was used as a base for the financing of international terrorism.
		"The commission determined that the security report is accurate," said Mr Sakalas.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/3252042.stm (517 words)

	Lithuanian president besieged / Probe calls Paksas a 'menace' to nation
		Aloyzas Sakalas, head of the parliamentary commission, said in a telephone interview Monday that his panel "made a conclusion that the activities of the president constitute a threat to national security.'' He said the panel found "enough evidence to suggest that an organized crime ring tried to influence the president through his close aides.''
		Paksas, he said, "knew about it, because he was warned about what was going on several times.'' Sakalas said the panel made no recommendation on impeachment, but at least three political parties, including one from the ruling coalition, announced they were prepared to launch such proceedings.
		Parliament was to discuss the report today, and there were growing demands for Paksas to resign.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/02/MNG833E5GL1.DTL (445 words)

	Lithuanian government resigns amidst bitter intrigues over privatisations
		Early in 2001, Brazauskas’ party merged with the Social Democratic Party of former dissidents, Aloyzas Sakalas and Vytenis Andriukaitis, to form the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party.
		Sakalas and Andriukaitis’ party, affiliated to the Second International, has long cooperated with its former Stalinist persecutors and fully supports privatisation, as well as EU and NATO membership.
		To the extent Brazauskas and the Social Democrats have programmatic differences with “New Policy”, they centre primarily on the proportion of state shareholding to be retained after privatisation.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jul2001/lith-j09_prn.shtml (1747 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Deputies moved this evening to open impeachment proceedings, creating a group to gather the necessary amount of signatures among deputies to start the proceedings.
		According to Aloyzas Sakalas, the chairman of the parliamentary commission investigating Paksas's possible links to organized crime, there is good reason to start the impeachment process.
		The Lithuanian parliament is expected to formally start impeachment proceedings against Paksas as early as Thursday (4 December).
	www.rferl.org /nca/features/2003/12/02122003175530.asp (233 words)

	IOL: Lithuanian president to blame in scandal
		The report is to be discussed in parliament on Tuesday.
		Aloyzas Sakalas said it crucially concludes that Paksas himself was directly involved, paving the way for impeachment procedures.
		He said it was time Paksas take responsibility for a scandal that has rocked the country, and resign.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=24&art_id=qw1070283241128B243&set_id=1 (326 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Impeachment begins for Lithuanian leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		If Paksas is removed, parliament speaker Arturas Paulauskas would become the acting president and new elections would be held within 60 days.
		No top politicians have said if they would seek the office, but speculation has centered on Adamkus, Paulauskas and lawmaker Aloyzas Sakalas, who is leading the impeachment push.
		The affair unfolded when a leaked state security report said several presidential staffers had ties to organized crime.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2003/12/18/impeachment_begins_for_lithuanian_leader?mode=PF (537 words)

	Rosbalt.RU - printer friendly version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A special commission of the Lithuanian parliament has completed its investigation of the controversy surrounding President Rolandas Paksas and several of his assistants, who are suspected of having ties to the criminal worlds of Lithuania and Russia during Lithuania's presidential election.
		Commission Chairman Aloyzas Sakalas officially declared to journalists Monday that the panel had found real grounds to distrust the head of the government.
		The investigation results now go to parliament, whose review of the matter is expected to begin tomorrow.
	www.rosbaltnews.com /print/print?cn=64934 (90 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Lithuania leader mob tie seen
		Over the weekend, at least 5,000 Lithuanians took to the streets of their capital, Vilnius, demanding that Paksas, a 47-year-old former stunt pilot elected in January, step down.
		Aloyzas Sakalas, head of the parliamentary commission, said in a telephone interview yesterday that his panel "made a conclusion that the activities of the president constitute a threat to national security." He said the panel found "enough evidence to suggest that an organized crime ring tried to influence the president through his close aides."
		Paksas, he said, "knew about it, because he was warned about what was going on several times."
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2003/12/02/lithuania_leader_mob_tie_seen?mode=PF (486 words)

	President Paksas to face prosecutors :: Australijos Lietuviu Jaunimo Sajunga :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Paksas has rejected the report as ''fantasy'' but the lawmaker who heads the parliamentary committee probing the allegations said initial hearings had found nothing to contradict it.
		''Democracy demands that all the facts be put forward without distortion to society,'' Aloyzas Sakalas said.
		He said hearings would continue next week with a report due on December 1, but it was not yet clear if Paksas would appear before the committee.
	www.aljs.org /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=28&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (406 words)

	AEGiS-AFP News: Lithuania-prison-AIDS: Hunger strike spreads in Lithuanian prisons as inmates fear HIV outbreak - June ...
		But there is also considerable opposition to spending more on convicts.
		"They want better food that most of pensioners can afford today," said Aloyzas Sakalas, a lawmaker from the ruling Social Democrat party.
		Lithuania has had one of the lowest HIV infection rates in Europe, but the prison outbreak has nearly doubled its number of HIV cases to 576 in the country of 3.5 million people.
	www.aegis.com /NEWS/AFP/2002/AF020648.html (648 words)

	Central Europe Review - Lithuanian News Review
		Well-known dissident and head of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group Viktoras Petkus called it a major human rights abuse.
		Social Democrat MP Aloyzas Sakalas, another well-known former dissident, called it "state flmail," since the state guarantees the protection of the identities of those who register.
		Rimantas Vaitkus was named deputy economics minister in charge of the decommissioning of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
	www.ce-review.org /00/6/lithuanianews6.html (1185 words)

	Central Europe Review - Lithuanian: Private-Sector Lustration
		Perhaps a more honest reason is that many of the politicians have been implicated in one way or another as an "accomplice" or "informant" for the KGB.
		One notable case was the accusations that Landsbergis himself informed on Aloyzas Sakalas, the until-recently head of the Social Democratic Party.
		Such accusations surface every few months on some important politician, just as in Estonia and Poland.
	www.ce-review.org /authorarchives/amber_archive/amber38old.html (848 words)

	Untitled Document
		Both prosecutor general A. Paulauskas and Aloyzas Sakalas will help us as well.
		But those who hinder me, and in this case that means you, Hen, I'll put you in jail for at least a couple months under the prevention law.
		Rimkevicius and ulcas determinedly shook their heads and said that wasn't possible, and besides, there was no reason to do that, since A. Sakalas was informed about all of it in the finest detail, and wouldn't change his decision.
	www.laisvaslaikrastis.lt /1.htm (6251 words)

	Commission’s Results Provide Growth Opportunities
		Often times the Parliament members have plenary meetings, various committee and fraction meetings, and sometimes even tours of duty which were planned well in advance.
		The representatives from Parliament to our Commission are all high level officials: Feliksas Palubinskas and Romualdas Ozolas, Deputy Prime Ministers; Jurgis Razma, Parliamentary Chancellor; and Aloyzas Sakalas and Ceslovas Jursenas, party chairmen.
		To find time for our Commission sessions where we can meet with these representatives at a time when they are not so busy is quite difficult.
	www.javlb.org /bridges/saus99/growth.html (1812 words)

	eti - EUobserver, 15.6.2005: MEPs question new pay deal
		MEPs brushed aside concerns that the deal, which spells an increase for all but the Italian camp, could annoy the general European public however.
		"It might get some media articles at home, but it's already decided by the European Council", Lithuanian socialist member Aloyzas Sakalas explained.
		The Lithuanian president reportedly earns just 2,500 a month while a constitutional high court judge currently gets 5,000 a month.
	www.hpmartin.net /EUobserver__15_6_2005__MEPs_question_new_pay_deal-lang-en.html (580 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Caspian news, links, maps etc.
		The head of the parliamentary committee says enough evidence has been collected to link key aides of President Paksas with Russian criminal groups.
		The committee leader, Aloyzas Sakalas, says the evidence substantiates allegations that the president violated the constitution and is therefore subject to impeachment.
		The allegations first surfaced in an earlier report by the Lithuanian security services, which claimed that the president's main financial backer in his election, Jurijus Borisovas, was involved in illegal arms trading with Sudan.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=7232 (449 words)

	Amitai Etzioni Notes: Defining Down Democracy . . . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Borisov's Lithuanian citizenship, which he had lost the year before after receiving Russian citizenship.
		The chairman of the Parliament's investigative committee, Aloyzas Sakalas, said Mr.
		Borisov's application by subverting a routine background check.
	www.amitai-notes.com /blog/archives/000424.html (911 words)

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		Vilnius, December 2002 Mr Sakalas Chair of Vilnius Save the Children Third Regional Meeting of NGO Forums in Europe Constitutional Hall, Parliament in Vilnius, Lithuania, on October 30-31, 2002 Final Programme Wednesday, October 30th 9.00-10.00Registration in the Parliament. 10.00 Introduction and welcome to Constitution Hall Mr.
		As of October 2002 the number of members has risen to 100 organisations covering a broad spectrum of issues.
	www.crin.org /docs/resources/publications/NGOCRC/subgroup-NationalCoalitions-Vilnius-Report-2003.doc (16944 words)

	SBS - The World News
		The committee will publish its findings on Monday.
		"We are going to say clearly where the president violated the constitution and the statement that the president violated the constitution is a basis for impeachment, according to our legislation," committee head Aloyzas Sakalas told a local newspaper.
		The allegations came to light a month ago in a security services report which said some of Mr Paksas' aides were linked to crime rings.
	www9.sbs.com.au /theworldnews/region.php?id=74146®ion=3 (242 words)

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