Juozas Purickis was a prominent diplomat and journalist in interwar Lithuania and served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from June 1920 to December 1921, as well as the acting Prime Minister of Lithuania for two months at the end of 1921 during the leave of absence of Prime Minister Kazys Grinius
Juozas Purickis
Purickis (standing third from the left) with a delegation of the Council of Lithuania in Berlin to discuss the formation of the first Lithuanian government
Purickis from Album of Lithuania published in 1921
Board of the Lithuanian Journalists' Union around 1932. Purickis sits third from the left.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lithuania)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania is a governmental body of the Republic of Lithuania that shapes the national policy, and organises, coordinates, and controls its enforcement in the following areas: foreign affairs and security policy: international relations, economic security, foreign trade, protection of the rights and interests of the Republic of Lithuania and its persons and entities abroad; coordination of European Union membership; representing the Republic of Lithuania abroad diplomatic and consular relations, diplomatic service, Lithuanian national and diplomatic protocol, international relations; the policy of cooperation of the Republic of Lithuania; strengthening of expat connections with Lithuania.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lithuania)
Seal of the interwar Republic ministry
Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Baltic States. Tallinn, December 1937. Center: Estonian Minister Friedrich Akel. On the left: Lithuanian Minister Juozas Urbšys. Right: Latvian Minister Vilhelms Munters.
Ministers of the Baltic States – Edgars Rinkēvičs, Marina Kaljurand, Linas Linkevičius – meet the US Secretary of State John Kerry in 2016.