Deputy Minister Survila will oversee strategic communication, interinstitutional cooperation, coordination and implementation of the minister’s strategic projects and initiatives, as well as the strengthening of Lithuania’s resilience to external threats.
Survila currently serves as an adviser to Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. He had worked in Landsbergis’ political team when the latter was an MEP, also was a political adviser to then prime minister Andrius Kubilius and the chief political adviser to the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD).
Deputy Minister Neliupšienė will be responsible for shaping and implementing the EU’s policy, relationships with EU bodies, coordination of sanctions, bilateral ties with European countries and foreign trade policy matters.
Neliupšienė now holds the position of Deputy Minister of Economy and Innovation. In 2015-2020, she was Lithuania’s permanent representative to the EU and, later, the chancellor of the MFA. Before that she was the chief foreign policy adviser to then-president Dalia Grybauskaitė.
Stanytė-Toločkienė will coordinate the implementation of Lithuania’s key foreign policy objectives. She is the ambassador of Lithuania to Armenia and since 2017 headed the MFA’s Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department.
Meanwhile, Levickytė currently is the spokeswoman of the TS-LKD Political Group in Parliament. In 2018-2021, she was a political journalist at the news agency ELTA.
