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Foreign Minister resigns

Jan 27, 2010
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

TAKING THIS WALTZ: Vygaudas Usackas is a good communicator with perfect PR skills. On Dec. 15, in the Vienna Opera House, he congratulated Violeta Urmana, Lithuania’s world-class megastar opera singer who received an award from the Austrian government. Very active participation by Usackas in public life could cause some fear of competition in the current presidential palace.
VILNIUS - On Jan. 21, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas presented a resignation letter to Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius. The latter was not in a very big hurry to confirm the resignation, giving Usackas the possibility to go to the European Union foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Jan. 25. It was his last trip in the post of foreign minister. Usackas said he was quitting after Kubilius’ meeting with President Dalia Grybauskaite on Jan. 20. “The p ...

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