Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has announced he will soon take advantage of his country’s legalization of same-sex marriage after his civil partner Gauthier Destenay proposed to him.

Bettel and Destenay have been in a civil partnership since March of 2010 and same-sex marriage was legalized in Luxembourg in June of this year under his watch as leader of the government.

However it is only now that the couple are looking to make use of the law.

‘He asked me, and I said yes,’ the 41-year-old prime minister told a reporter from the LA Times.

‘I can’t give you the date, because it’s not official yet.’

However one thing is for certain – the marriage will not take place before January of next year when the law comes into effect.

Bettel became the third openly gay leader of a country in December of last year, following in the footsteps of retired Icelandic Prime Minister JÃ³hanna SigurÃ°ardÃ³ttir and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo – elected in 2011.

However Luxembourg is in the unique position of having both a gay leader and a gay deputy leader as Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider is also a gay man.

