Algirdas Saudargas (born April 17, 1948 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR (now Lithuania)) 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.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania 1990–1992 |
Succeeded by Povilas Gylys |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania 1996–2000 |
Succeeded by Antanas Valionis |
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