{"id":4321,"date":"2019-09-16T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2019-12-10T12:34:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T09:34:17","slug":"the-story-of-batun-presented-at-the-national-library-of-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2019\/09\/16\/the-story-of-batun-presented-at-the-national-library-of-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of BATUN Presented at the National Library of Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The author Sirje Okas Anso (on the left) was present at the event. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On September 12, a book The Story of BATUN\u2014Baltic Appeal to the United Nations (1966-1991)<\/em>, published in 2018 by Estonian-born Sirje Okas Ains<\/strong> was presented at the Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania. BATUN is the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian movement founded in the US in the late 1960s, which main goal was to seek independence for the Baltic States and their membership in the United Nations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A collection of\ndocuments presents the historical narrative of the Baltic States and the successful\ncollaboration between the three nations. The author Sirje Okas Ains offers an\ninteresting narrative based on documents, photos and personal insights. The book\nalso contains a collection of archival documents which include not only documents\ntestifying to various BATUN\u2019s activities, but also organization\u2019s correspondence\nwith ambassadors, materials distributed and produced by the organization, and\nexamples of the BATUN\u2019s newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sirje Okas Ains\nis an artist and a longtime member of BATUN. She grew up in Argentina and\ngraduated from the University of Buenos Aires. In 1968, she moved with her\nfamily to the United States, where she studied arts at New York University. In 1969,\nshe became actively involved in BATUN becoming a member of the board. Later she\nwas delegated to the United Nations missions and the UN Human Rights Committee.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 12, a book The Story of BATUN\u2014Baltic Appeal to the United Nations (1966-1991), published in 2018 by Estonian-born Sirje Okas Ains was presented at the Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania. BATUN is the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian movement founded in the US in the late 1960s, which main goal was to seek … Toliau skaityti „The Story of BATUN Presented at the National Library of Lithuania”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}