MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE IS ASSIGNED AS LITHUANIA’S ACTING MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
On 26 January 2010, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė issued a decree, assigning Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė as Lithuania’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs until the new Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs is appointed. On 27 January 2010, Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė, Evaldas Ignatavičius and Šarūnas Adomavičius were appointed as Vice-Ministers of Foreign Affairs for the period during which the Minister of National Defence will act as Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.