Imants Viesturs Lieģis (born April 30, 1955) is the Latvian Minister of Defence.[1] He was born in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the parliamentary Civic Union party, which was formed in May 2008. Lieģis was appointed to the defence ministry post in March 2009, as part of the new six-party coalition government headed by Valdis Dombrovskis.[2]
Lieģis served previously as Latvia's ambassador to NATO,[3] a post to which he was appointed in 1997 while also serving as ambassador to the Benelux countries.[4]
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