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On 26 March in Brussels, an additional plenary session of the European Convention was held in order to discuss the first articles of the future Constitutional Treaty defining the European Union, its goals, values and the basic rights of citizens. According to Representative of the Lithuanian Government at the Convention, Undersecretary of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Rytis Martikonis, the goals, principles and values laid down in the draft Constitutional Treaty are similar to those that Lithuania will embrace upon signing the EU Accession Treaty. "With a few weeks to go before the signature of the Accession Treaty, we speak in favour of a gradual and consistent change of the whole system of EU treaties. The future Constitutional Treaty will signify a new stage of the EU development, but not an establishment of a new formation in the continent. The new treaty should not change the political and legal nature of the EU, the core of the acquis should also be preserved," Undersecretary Martikonis emphasised.