Antanas Valionis | |
Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Primeminister: | Rolandas Paksas Eugenijus Gentvilas Algirdas Brazauskas Zigmantas Balčytis Gediminas Kirkilas |
Term Start: | 9 November 2000 |
Term End: | 18 July 2006 |
Predecessor: | Algirdas Saudargas |
Successor: | Petras Vaitiekūnas |
Birth Date: | 21 September 1950 |
Birth Place: | Zabieliškis, Lithuania |
Party: | New Union |
Antanas Valionis (born September 21, 1950) is a Lithuanian politician, currently a member of the New Union party.
He was appointed the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs on October 30, 2000, and reappointed on July 5, 2001. He resigned on August 31, 2006.
From 1981 he served in the Soviet secret police KGB in Riga reaching the rank of captain.[1] [2] Afterwards he served in the KGB active reserve.