Biography
Mr Petras Auštrevičius is a Lithuanian politician, diplomat and a member of the European Parliament since 2014 (re-elected in 2019). He serves on the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) for his second term. Mr Auštrevičius acts as a coordinator for the Renew Europe group in the EP Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE). He is a chair of the European Parliament's Delegation for relations with Afghanistan for the second term already, since 2014. He is European Parliament's standing rapporteur for Belarus (since 2019) and Eastern Partnership. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Chief Negotiator for Lithuania's membership to the European Union. Mr Auštrevičius is a co-founder and first chairman of the Liberals Movement of the Republic of Lithuania. He was also a President of the European Federalist movement in Lithuania.