Linas Linkjavičius
Date of Birth: 06.01.1961
Linas Antanas Linkjavičius - Lithuanian politician, journalist, diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (2012-2020). Minister of Defense of the Republic of Lithuania (1993-1996, 2000-2004).
Place of Birth. Education. Born on January 6, 1961 into a family of an engineer and a teacher in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR. He spent his childhood and youth in Kaunas. In 1978, he graduated from the 7th secondary school in Kaunas with a gold medal. From 1978 to 1983, he studied at the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in the field of automation engineering as an electrical engineer.
Linkjavičius speaks Russian, English, French, Polish.
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Political Career. He was Secretary of the District Committee of the LKSM of the Lithuanian SSR in Kaunas, Head of the Department of the Central Committee of the LKSM of the Lithuanian SSR. One of the initiators and ideologists of the separation of the Lithuanian Komsomol and the founding of the youth wing of the Social Democratic organization.
From 1990, he was a correspondent for the newspaper 'Tiesa' and an advisor to the parliamentary faction of the Lithuanian Democratic Labor Party.
From 1991 to 1996, he was a member of the Council of the Lithuanian Democratic Labor Party.
From 1992 to 1996, he was a deputy in the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
From 1992 to 1993, he was the head of the Lithuanian parliamentary delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee for foreign affairs, chairman of the youth labor union, and editor of the newspaper 'Tiesa'.
From 1993 to 1996, Minister of Defense of the Republic of Lithuania.
From 1997 to 2000, ambassador, head of the representation of Lithuania to NATO and the Western European Union.
From 2000 to 2004, Minister of Defense of the Republic of Lithuania.
From 2004 to 2005, special representative of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Since 2005 to 2011, permanent representative of Lithuania to NATO and the North Atlantic Council.
Since 2011, Special Representative of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, simultaneously from September 13, 2011, to September 13, 2012, advisor (on a public basis) to the Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius.
On June 25, 2012, the Lithuanian President signed a decree on his appointment as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Lithuania to Belarus from July 24, 2012. Relieved of his ambassadorial duties on December 7, 2012.
From December 7, 2012, to December 11, 2020, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.
Views. On December 14, 2013, Linkjavičius brought warm gloves in the Lithuanian national style as a gift to Ukrainians standing on Independence Square (Maidan). He personally went there and distributed the gloves to the people who stood on the Maidan. During his stay on the Maidan, he also met with the leader of the UDAR party, Vitali Klitschko, and the leader of the VO Svoboda party, Oleg Tyagnibok. He consistently criticized the regime of Viktor Yanukovych for betraying the European path of development and violently suppressing peaceful demonstrations.
Awards. Order of the Three Stars 3rd class (Latvia, 2001). Commander of the Order of Grand Duke Gediminas (2003). Commander of the Cross of the Order (2004). Order of Mary Land 2nd class (Estonia, 2005). Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (2015).
Family. Married, two daughters.
27.12.2023