Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has appointed 12 new ambassadors, including the country’s envoys to Poland, Ukraine, Germany, and the EU.
All the decrees were signed last week.
Inga Stanytė-Toločkienė has been appointed as Lithuania’s ambassador to Ukraine. She will assume office on August 19.
Valdemaras Sarapinas will represent Lithuania in Poland as of August 19, while Giedrius Puodžiūnas will be appointed as Lithuania’s ambassador to Germany from August 12.
On August 14, Nerijus Aleksiejūnas, Lithuania’s former ambassador to France, will take up the post of the country’s representative to the EU. He will be replaced in Paris by Arnoldas Pranckevičius, the former ambassador to the EU.
Darius Vitkauskas will start serving as the new Lithuanian ambassador to Georgia as of August 6.
Kęstutis Vaškelevičius will take up the post of Lithuania’s ambassador to Azerbaijan on August 12, while Darius Jonas Semaška will assume office as the country’s ambassador to Switzerland.
As of August 26, Lithuania will also have new diplomatic representatives in Finland and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development – Edvilas Raudonikis and Rolandas Kriščiūnas respectively.
Rolandas Kačinskas will become Lithuania’s ambassador to the Czech Republic on August 20, and Jonas Grinevičius will assume the position of ambassador to Ireland from August 12.
The appointment of new diplomatic representatives stalled last year following disagreements between the president and Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on their nomination. The nominations were agreed in March.
In Lithuania, ambassadors are appointed and dismissed by the president upon the government’s nomination and with the approval of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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