Rinkevics appoints Eihenbaums ambassador to Mongolia

RIGA - President Edgars Rinkevics has appointed Karlis Eihenbaums Latvia's ambassador to Mongolia, according to a statement printed in government gazette Latvijas Vestnesis.

Eihenbaums, who currently also serves as Latvia's ambassador to China, will also be Latvia's ambassador to Vietnam.

According to the website of the Latvian Embassy in China, Eihenbaums has been working at the Foreign Ministry since January 1993. He served as director of the Western Europe Department and later as director of the American Department.

During his career as a diplomat, Eihenbaums has served as director of the Foreign Ministry's First Department for Bilateral Relations, the ministry's ambassador-press secretary, and head of the Latvian Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

Eihmanis has also served as foreign policy advisor to President Guntis Ulmanis.

Furthermore, Eihmanis has served as first secretary and deputy head of mission at the Latvian Embassy in London, as counsellor and charge d'Affaires at the Latvian Embassy in the Netherlands, as Latvia's first permanent representative at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, and as Latvian ambassador to the Netherlands, Israel, Estonia and Canada.

Eihenbaums graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the University of Latvia, and furthered his education at Aarhus University in Denmark and elsewhere.

Mongolia recognized Latvia's independence on August 29, 1991, and diplomatic relations between the two countries were established on October 15, 1991.

Latvia's current Ambassador to Mongolia Maija Manika presented her credentials to Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh on March 27, 2023.