The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Lithuania" id="mwbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Council of Lithuania">Council of Lithuania</a> unanimously adopts the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Independence_of_Lithuania" id="mwbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Act of Independence of Lithuania">Act of Independence</a>, declaring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania" id="mwcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a> an independent state.<sup about="#mwt36" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_16#cite_note-5" id="mwcQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwcg">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt33" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFOECD1998">OECD (6 October 1998). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=F4rWAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA18" id="mwBiw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBi0">Investment Guides: Lithuania 1998</i></a>. OECD Publishing. p.<span id="mwBi4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>18. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBi8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBjA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-92-64-16368-3" id="mwBjE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-92-64-16368-3"><bdi id="mwBjI">978-92-64-16368-3</bdi></a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200801132439/https://books.google.com/books?id=F4rWAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA18" id="mwBjM" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 1 August 2020<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBjQ">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBjU">17 February</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt33" class="Z3988" id="mwBjY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Investment+Guides%3A+Lithuania+1998&amp;rft.pages=18&amp;rft.pub=OECD+Publishing&amp;rft.date=1998-10-06&amp;rft.isbn=978-92-64-16368-3&amp;rft.au=OECD&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DF4rWAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA18&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+16"></span></span>