Justas Vincas Paleckis

Justas Vincas Paleckis ( Kuybyshev (Russia), January 1 1942 ) is a politician and diplomat from Lithuania . ==[Biography  edit ] == Paleckis is a son of Justas Paleckis (1899-1980), politician at the time of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic . After graduating from high school Salomeja-Neris in Vilnius, 1959-1964, he studied journalism at the University of Vilnius and from 1966-1969 diplomacy and international relations in Moscow . From 1969-1983 he was a Soviet diplomat in East Germany and Switzerland. From 1990-1992 he was a member of the Seimas, in 2002-2004 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 10 June 2004 he was elected member of the European Parliament after Lithuania's accession to the European Union .