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Iurie LEANCĂ
Iurie Leancă graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations and from 1986
until 1993, Leancă worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between May and October 1989,
he served as second secretary at the Soviet embassy in Bucharest, Romania, first secretary in the
political department of the foreign ministry of the Soviet Moldavia (1989-1990), and counselor of
Moldova’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs specializing in European affairs (1990-1993).
Between 1993 and 1997, he was the Minister-Counselor at the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova
in Washington, D.C.. Then, he was a deputy Foreign Affairs Minister (1998-1999) and the
first deputy Foreign Affairs Minister (1999-2002), in the Alliance for Democracy and Reforms
cabinets and in Vasile Tarlev Cabinet (1). Also, he was the acting Foreign Minister of Moldova.
He worked as the Ascom Group deputy CEO (2001-2005, 2007-2009). Also he was a Senior
Adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (2005-2007).
He has been a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) since January 2009. He was elected as MP in
April 2009 election and July 2009 election.
Amb. Iurie Leancă was the vice-president of The Foreign Policy Association of Moldova (2005-2009).
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