Algirdas Saudargas
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(as head of the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service)
Rolandas Paksas
Andrius Kubilius
Algirdas Saudargas | |
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| 17th Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 11 April 1990 – 17 December 1992 | |
| Prime Minister | Kazimira Prunskienė Albertas Šimėnas Gediminas Vagnorius Aleksandras Abišala |
| Preceded by | Stasys Antanas Bačkis (as head of the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service) |
| Succeeded by | Povilas Gylys |
| 19th Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 10 December 1996 – 9 November 2000 | |
| Prime Minister | Gediminas Vagnorius Rolandas Paksas Andrius Kubilius |
| Preceded by | Povilas Gylys |
| Succeeded by | Antanas Valionis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 April 1948 |
| Party | Homeland Union European People's Party |
| Children | 2 incl. Paulius Saudargas |
| Alma mater | Kaunas Institute of Medicine |
Algirdas Saudargas (born April 17, 1948) 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 Lithuania after it regained independence.
In 1966, he completed his secondary education at Saulė High School in Kaunas. He then went on to graduate from the Kaunas Institute of Medicine in 1972 with a degree in biophysics. Between 1972 and 1977, he held the position of junior research fellow at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Physics and Mathematics. From 1977 to 1982, he worked as a senior lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture, and from 1982 to 1986 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaunas Branch of the Institute for Biological Research of Chemical Compounds. From 1986 to 1990, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Central Research Laboratory, Neurosurgery Laboratory of the Kaunas Institute of Medicine.[1]
