Name Algirdas Saudargas | Role Politician | |
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Algirdas Saudargas, Member of the European Parliament
Algirdas Saudargas (born April 17, 1948 in Kaunas, 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.
He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009.
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