Vygaudas UÅ¡ackas

Vygaudas Ušackas ( born December 16, 1964 in Skuodas ) is a Lithuanian diplomat, politician, former Lithuanian foreign minister.

Life

1982 graduated Vygaudas Ušackas second middle school Skuodas and 1990, the study of law at the University of Vilnius. He continued to study Political Science and International Economics at the University of Oslo (Norway ) from 1990 and Policy at the University of Aarhus (Denmark ) from 1991.

Vygaudas Ušackas was Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania (1999-2000), Ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom (2006-2008). From December 2008 to January 2010 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania. He stepped back from the post on 21 January 2010 and was officially released on January 26, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius. This followed a review by the Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, the Ušackas had publicly withdrawn from the trust and recommended his dismissal. This was due to repeated disagreements between the President and the Foreign Minister, among other things, the interpretation of the report of the committee of inquiry into secret CIA prisons in Lithuania or the country's policy towards the neighboring state of Belarus. Successor Ušackas ' in the office of foreign minister was in February 2010 Audronius Ažubalis. Meanwhile, led Rasa Juknevičienė provisionally the ministry.

On 22 February 2010 was appointed as the new EU Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the EU Mission in Kabul Vygaudas Ušackas of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton.

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