Ints M. Siliņš (25 March 1942[1]) is a Latvian-American retired Career Foreign Service Officer who served first as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Latvia beginning service October 2, 1991 and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Latvia until July 14, 1995.
His father was later captured by the Red Army and sent to a Soviet death camp in Siberia, where he later died.
[3] Siliņš joined the Foreign Service in 1970 and served in South Vietnam, Romania, Haiti and Sweden.
[5][6] In 1987 he was named deputy director for bilateral relations in the Office of Soviet Affairs in Washington, and served as Consul General for the US Mission in Strasbourg prior to his assignment in Latvia.
[5] Siliņš had opened a makeshift Embassy in a room at the Hotel Rīdzene in Riga in October 1991.