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Petras Vaitiekūnas (born 26 March 1953, in Liudvinavas,
Marijampolė County Marijampolė County () is one of the ten counties of Lithuania, counties in Lithuania. It is in the southwest of the country and roughly corresponds to the historical region of Suvalkija, Sudovia. Its Capital (political), capital and the largest ...
) is a Lithuanian
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who was the
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of
Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
from 2006 to 2008. Petras Vaitiekūnas was a signatory to the Lithuanian declaration of independence in 1990 and a member of the Lithuanian Supreme Council from 1990 to 1992. He served as
ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or so ...
to
Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...
from 1999 to 2004 and ambassador to
Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
from 2005 to 2006. He was appointed Foreign Minister of Lithuania on 12 July 2006.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaitiekunas, Petras Living people 1953 births Ambassadors of Lithuania to Latvia Ambassadors of Lithuania to Belarus Ministers of foreign affairs of Lithuania Ambassadors of Lithuania to Ukraine Recipients of St. George's Order of Victory