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Committees of the Seimas
| 11/19/2024 | Committee on Foreign Affairs, Member |
Political groups of the Seimas
| 11/14/2024 | Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group, Member |
Parliamentary groups
| 12/05/2024 | Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, Member |
| 12/12/2024 | Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Italian Republic, Member |
| 12/05/2024 | Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Republic of Korea, Member |
| 12/05/2024 | Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Member |
| 12/05/2024 | Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the United States of America, Member |
| 12/19/2024 | Provisional Group Against Mass Immigration, Member |
| 11/21/2024 | Provisional Group for Civic Patriotic Education, Member |
| 03/28/2025 | Provisional Group of Friends of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, Member |
| 11/21/2024 | Provisional Parliamentary Group for Relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan), Member |
| 12/03/2024 | Provisional Prayer Group, Member |
| 12/05/2024 | Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Deputy Head |
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Date of birth | 17 January 1958 |
Place of birth | Vilnius, Lithuania |
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Education | |
1990 | Political and Economic Studies World Press Institute, Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota, USA |
1982–1989 | Master’s in Journalism, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University) |
1976–1977 | Journalism Studies, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University); expelled on account of connections with the Lithuanian Helsinki Group |
1964–1976 | Antano Vienuolio Secondary School in Vilnius (currently Antano Vienuolio progimnazija (lower secondary school) and Vytauto Didžiojo gimnazija (upper secondary school)) |
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Work experience | |
2001–2004 | Director General, Translation, Documentation and Information Centre under the Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania |
1993–1996 | Manager, PR Consultative Centre Multum Creditum |
1992–1993 | Head, Information Analysis Unit, Office of the Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania |
1990–1992 | Spokesman, Supreme Council–Reconstituent Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania |
1989–1990 | Reporter, Atgimimas, weekly of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis |
1979–1988 | Editor and Journalist at the Lithuanian State Committee on Publishing Houses; Polygraphy and Book Trade; Lithuanian Scientific Methodological Cultural Centre; Lithuanian State Television and Radio Committee; and Lithuanian State Film Rent Bureau |
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Political career | |
| Member, Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats |
2020–2024 | Member of the 13th Seimas |
| Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs |
| Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| Head, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
| Co-Chair, Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council (UNIC) |
2016–2020 | Member of the 12th Seimas |
| Member, Committee on European Affairs |
| Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| Member, Constitutional Commission |
2012–2016 | Member of the 11th Seimas |
| Deputy Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| Member, Committee on European Affairs |
2011 | Chairperson-in-Office, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
2010–2012 | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania |
2008–2012 | Member of the 10th Seimas |
| Member, Committee on European Affairs |
| Chair, Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| Member, Commission for Nuclear Energy |
| Head, Member, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
| Deputy Head, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of Members of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine |
2004–2008 | Member of the 9th Seimas |
| Member, Committee on European Affairs |
| Deputy Chair, Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| Member, Commission for NATO Affairs |
| Member, Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
Since 1998 | Member, Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats |
1996–2000 | Member of the 7th Seimas |
| Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs |
| Chair, Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs |
| Member, Commission for Ethics and Procedures |
| Member, Commission for NATO Affairs |
| Member, Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
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Miscellaneous | |
Service in the Soviet Army (1977–1979) Activities: President, Lithuanian and Great Britain Association British Chamber of Commerce (1998–2000); President, National Magazine Publishers’ Association (2001–2003); supporter of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group; member of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union (since 2015); member of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters (since 2017); co-founder of the Center for Freedom and Democracy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute Awards: Third Class Order for Merits to the Republic of Ukraine (2007); Commemorative Badge on the occasion of the invitation for Lithuania to join NATO (2003); Commemorative Medal of 13 January (1999); Second Class Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana of the Republic of Estonia (2013); Order of Honour for Service to the State of Georgia (2014); Third Class Badge of Distinction For Service to the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union (2020) | |
Interests: foreign and European policy of Lithuania, national security and defence | |
Foreign languages: English and Russian | |
Hobbies | |
historical literature, gardening, alpine skiing, and angling | |
Family | |
Married with two daughters | |
