Algirdas Saudargas
Algirdas Saudargas (born April 17, 1948) is a Lithuanian politician and the signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. He was the first foreign minister of post-Soviet Lithuania. He was foreign minister from March 24, 1990, to December 12, 1992, and again from December 4, 1996, to October 30, 2000. In 1992, Algirdas Saudargas, together with 9 other Baltic Ministers of Foreign Affairs and an EU commissioner, founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty.[1]
He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009.
External links[]
- Algirdas Saudargas in the official website of Seimas
References[]
- ^ Kristensen, Gustav N. 2010. Born into a Dream. EuroFaculty and the Council of the Baltic Sea States. Berliner Wissentshafts-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8305-1769-6.
Categories:
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
- Politicians from Kaunas
- Lithuanian Roman Catholics
- Homeland Union MEPs
- MEPs for Lithuania 2009–2014
- MEPs for Lithuania 2014–2019
- Members of the Seimas
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