The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, taking into account conclusions presented by the State Committee Established to Study Problems of Eastern Lithuania, as well as those presented by the joint working group that analysed proposals submitted by the Vilnius and Šalčininkai regions, and by some territorial districts of the Trakai, Širvintos and Švenčionys regions, and evaluating the state's economic capacity to satisfy the needs of the national minorities residing in Lithuania, r e s o l v e s:

1. To charge the Government of the Republic of Lithuania to submit to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, no later than 31 May 1991, a draft plan for the administrative- territorial division of the Republic of Lithuania, according to which the present Šalčininkai and Vilnius regions would possibly constitute the Vilnius territorial district.

2. To charge the Legal Committee, the Committee on Civil Rights and Ethnic Affairs, and the Committee on Municipal Affairs of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, as well as the State Committee Established to Study Problems of Eastern Lithuania to take into account suggestions and proposals concerning the ethnic, cultural, social, and economic requirements of the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania residing in said regions and to prepare, by 31 May 1991, the draft of the status of the Vilnius territorial district.

3. To charge the Government of the Republic of Lithuania prepare, by 1 May 1991, a prospective programme for higher education for ethnic minorities residing in Lithuania, and to begin implementing said programme in 1991.