CAREER DIPLOMAT APPOINTED AS LITHUANIA’S FIRST AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

Baltic News Service
March 12, 2008 Wednesday 3:06 PM EET

Career diplomat Giedrius Apuokas has been appointed as Lithuania’s
first ambassador to Armenia. The government decided at its meeting on
Wednesday to propose the candidacy to President Valdas Adamkus. Under
Lithuanian laws, ambassadors are appointed and dismissed by the
president with the government’s proposal and with approval from the
parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. Apuokas, who currently heads
the Foreign Ministry’s Information Technologies Department, worked as
Lithuania’s consul general in Chicago in 1998-2003, was the director
of the ministry’s Americas Division in 1995-1998, was the adviser
at the Lithuanian Embassy to the Czech Republic in 1992-1995 and
worked at the Foreign Ministry’s Eastern and Central Europe Division
in 1991-1992. Before the establishment of the Lithuanian Embassy to
Armenia on Oct. 1 2007, Lithuania was represented in the country by
the ambassador residing in Moscow. The embassy is currently headed
by Charge D’Affaires Kestutis Stankevicius. Vilnius newsroom, +370
5 2058509, politika@bns.lt