Lithuania’s action plan contains useful projects and measurable commitments. It still lacks an institution capable of deciding that the state itself failed.

Lithuania adopted its national action plan on 21 January 2026 under the twentieth government led by Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė. The government published a nineteen-page framework and a thirty-one-page implementation appendix. On 14 July, the twenty-first government led by Mindaugas Sinkevičius was sworn in. The plan crossed that transition without acquiring an independent evaluator. It was adopted by one government, inherited by another, and still leaves the state to judge its own performance.

I have published the complete source audit, with the measure-by-measure record, institutional links, transparency chronology, and questions for the public record. A stable linked PDF is also available for readers who want the full document in one file.

The full investigation also explains a refinement to my 9 May article, AJC and Lithuania: I had focused too narrowly on the plan’s main text. The implementation appendix names the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, LGGRTC, repeatedly. The issue is not omission. It is the decision to place LGGRTC inside the implementation machinery without first requiring an independent review of its disputed record.

The plan is not empty. It includes security assessments for Jewish institutions, law-enforcement training, teacher education, museum work, cemetery and massacre-site preservation, public-attitude targets, annual reporting, victim-name projects, and proposed legislation concerning public honors and memorials. Some of that work deserves support.

The central defect is structural. Lithuania appoints the coordinator. State institutions implement the measures. Those institutions report their progress to a government-appointed coordinator, who then publishes the government’s account. The plan creates an internal reporting loop. It does not create an independent body with the authority, access, and protected standing needed to conclude that a state institution failed.

That matters because LGGRTC is given several operational roles. It participates in decisions concerning public objects, the identification and marking of rescuers’ sites, proposed........

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