Petras Vaitiekūnas is a Lithuanian politician

Politician

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 who was the Foreign Minister of Lithuania

Lithuania

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 from 2006 to 2008.

Petras Vaitiekūnas was a signatory to the Lithuanian declaration of independence in 1990

Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

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 and a member of the Lithuanian Supreme Council from 1990 to 1992. He served as ambassador

Ambassador

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 to Latvia

Latvia

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 from 1999 to 2004 and ambassador to Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

from 2005 to 2006. He was appointed Foreign Minister of Lithuania on 12 July 2006.