VILNIUS, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, opened its spring session on Friday with more than 500 legal acts for discussions on the agenda.
"Social security remains the main strategic priority on the political agenda; emigration, demographic trends, social exclusion are among the problems which require exceptional unity," Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite said in a letter which was read to the members of parliament at the beginning of their first sitting during the spring session.
The president urged the lawmakers to return during this session for the discussions on the new social model law which includes legal acts related to labor relations and sustainability of the social system.
Reforms of the state-owned sector, including state-owned forest enterprises, the Center of Registers and the Regional Road Administration, must be implemented more willingly and decidedly, the president added.
She stressed that corruption must be eliminated from the state-owned sector in order to make the public sector more efficient.
"These decisions will open a new stage in the state's governance," Grybauskaite said in her address to Seimas.
Saulius Skvernelis, Lithuania's prime minister, called the lawmakers to adopt the reforms of the state-governed sector submitted by his cabinet.
According to the Constitution, Lithuanian Seimas' spring session will continue until June 30.
