VILNIUS - Five candidates for Lithuanian ambassadors, including two outgoing ministers and a former presidential adviser, were presented to the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee on June 13.
According to unofficial information available to Baltic News Service, the Foreign Ministry has proposed outgoing foreign minister Antanas Valionis, who held the office of foreign minister in three Lithuanian governments and had served two terms of office as Lithuanian ambassador to Warsaw before that, for the post of ambassador to Portugal.
Outgoing science and education minister Remigijus Motuzas, who stated he would not seek the minister's post in the wake of a scandal over maturity exams, has been proposed to be appointed as ambassador to Sweden.
Edminas Bagdonas, ambassador for special assignments at the Foreign Ministry's Eastern Europe and Central Asia Department, who earlier worked as presidential foreign policy adviser and had been Lithuania's ambassador to Rome before that, has been proposed for the post of ambassador to Washington.
