LITHUANIA-GERMANY-HISTORY-DIPLOMACY

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite (R) and the German ambassador to Lithuania Angelika Viets (L) stand next to the historic document called Lithuania's "birth certificate", on January 17, 2018 in Vilnius, during a handing-over ceremony launching the celebrations for the country's 100 years of independence. The 1918 document, which was unearthed in a Berlin archive last year by a Lithuanian professor, will stay in Lithuania for five years under a bilateral agreement, after Germany loaned Lithuania its long-lost declaration of independence on January 17, 2018 as the Baltic nation prepares to mark one hundred years since it restored statehood after World War I. / AFP PHOTO / Petras Malukas (Photo credit should read PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)