Ambassador Sarunas Adomavicius

Lithuanian diplomat Sarunas Adomavicius assumed his post as Head of Mission of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 1 October 2010.

Prior to that he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania responsible for international organizations (the UN, Council of Europe, OSCE - human dimension, and UNESCO), as well as for Asia, Africa, Latin America and Pacific countries, consular, international law and the community of democracies in which Lithuania assumed Chairmanship in 2009.

In his diplomatic career he has held various posts in the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs: Deputy Director of the Consular Department, Under-Secretary and Ambassador at Large.

He was appointed as Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the International Organizations in Vienna - Permanent Representative to OSCE, International Atomic Energy Agency, UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention - and Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN in Rome.

He served as Ambassador of Lithuania to the Italy and was concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Malta, San Marino and Switzerland.

After the restoration of Lithuania as an independent republic in 1990 he served as Counsellor to the Chairman of the Supreme Council (Parliament). He contributed to drafting of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and many others legal acts.

As a UN expert in 2002, he attended the meeting of the UN Group of Experts in Vancouver for preparation of the international legal acts of implementation on the Convention against Trans-national Organized Crime. He has lectured on international organizations at Vilnius Mykolas Riomeris University.

Ambassador Adomavicius speaks Lithuanian, English, Italian, German, Polish and Russian.