Press release, 23 October 2014
Photo of the Seimas Office (author Olga Posaškova)
The Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Loreta Graužinienė, met with the newly appointed Ambassador of Greece to Lithuania, Iraklis Asteriadis.
The Speaker noted that Lithuania highly valued the versatile cooperation with Greece, our country’s important partner in the European Union and NATO. The EU monetary policy, new challenges currently facing Europe and Eastern Partnership issues were discussed at the meeting.
The refugee crisis was given a special focus. The Greek diplomat noted that refugee quotas represented only a temporary solution to the problem and that we needed to focus on the elimination of causes rather than the effects.
Iraklis Asteriadis is a law graduate. In 1982, he started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece. He worked at the Embassies in Canada, Syria and Egypt, served in the mission to NATO and headed the Directorates for International Energy Affairs and NATO. In 2008, Mr Asteriadis was appointed as Ambassador of Greece to Jordan. From 2012 till his appointment as Hellenic Ambassador to Lithuania, he was Permanent Representative of Greece to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Rosvaldas Gorbačiovas, Adviser to the Speaker of the Seimas, tel:+370 5 239 6005
