However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) states that due to his busy schedule, G. Landsbergis will not be able to participate in the meeting of the Social Democratic faction.
As the minister’s spokeswoman Paulina Levickytė said to Eltai on Friday, the LSDP was offered to speak with the chancellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Inga Černiuk at the meeting. However, according to her, such an offer was refused.
“Due to the minister’s busy agenda, the chancellor of the ministry, Inga Černiuk, was proposed, who is best acquainted with the procedures and results of the selection and tenders of diplomats of the ministry. Unfortunately, members of the LSDP faction do not see the need to explain the specific situation and say they are waiting for the release of the minister’s agenda”, the minister’s press representative Paulina Levickytė said to Eltai.
On Saturday, it was reported that G. Landsbergis, in turn, was summoned to the faction meeting by the opposition “Vardan Lietuvos” faction of the Democratic Union. Regarding the appointments of the members of the conservative leader’s team, the Democrats have already applied to the Supreme Commission for Official Ethics (VTEK).
ELTA reminds that the former secretary and assistant of the Minister of Foreign Affairs was entrusted with the duties of attaché. This was first reported by the news portal delfi.lt. After asking the ministry if it was not a coincidence that the diplomatic rank was given to two persons related to the minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that they were appointed to the said positions after winning tenders.
Minister G. Landsbergis himself testified that the members of his team obtained this degree through an objective competition. According to the politician, the former so-called diplomatic practice, when the minister could grant the corresponding rank at his own discretion, no longer exists in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is true that on Tuesday it became clear that the former secretary of G. Landsbergis, who obtained the rank of attaché, is leaving to work at the representative office in the USA. Although a person holding a diplomat’s portfolio usually works in the ministry itself for 3 years and only after this term can be appointed to work in a diplomatic mission or consular institution, the former member of the minister’s team leaves for the Atlantic earlier.
2024-09-08 14:01:28