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Ambassador

Ambassador

                                               

ARTŪRAS ŽURAUSKAS

Curriculum Vitae

Date of birth

20 August 1961

Place of birth

Molėtai, Lithuania

 

Education

 
 

1979-1984

Vilnius University Faculty of law, Doctor of social sciences (law)

 
 

Work experience

 
 

2023 -

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to Romania and to the Republic of Bulgaria

 
 

2021 - 2023  

Director of the Law and International Treaties Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

 
 

2016-2021

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Latvia

 
 

2013-2016

Ambassador-at-Large of the Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

 
 

2012-2013

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Azerbaijan

 
 

2010-2012

Director of the Law and International Treaties Department, Acting Inspector General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania                       

 
 

2006-2010

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Hellenic Republic, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Albania

 
 

2001-2006

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

 
 

2000-2001

Director of the Consular Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania                       

 
 

1993-2000

Deputy Director of the Consular Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania                       

 
 

1990-1993

Lecturer at the Lithuanian Police Academy

 
 

1989-1990

Lecturer at the Vilnius Faculty of the Ministry of the Interior

 
 

1987-1989

Aspirant at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR

 
 

1984-1987

Interrogator of the Interrogation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

 
 

Other

 
 

State Awards

  • Commander of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (2003);
  • Commander of The Order of the Three Stars of the Republic of Latvia, Third class (2021).
 
 

Languages

Lithuania (native), English, Russian, Polish

 
 

Family

Married