Karabakh president names new foreign minister

Mediamax news agency
24 Dec 04

Yerevan, 24 December: Today the president of the Nagornyy Karabakh
Republic (NKR), Arkadiy Gukasyan, appointed Arman Melikyan, who held
the post of Nagornyy Karabakh’s permanent representative in Armenia,
new foreign minister of the republic.

Former NKR Foreign Minister Ashot Gulyan has been appointed minister
of education and culture, our Mediamax correspondent reports from
Stepanakert.

Presenting the new foreign minister to the Foreign Ministry staff,
Arkadiy Gukasyan noted that the decision on the staff reshuffle was
due to the necessity to speed up the work of the NKR Foreign Ministry
in the light of recent developments on the international scene.

According to Gukasyan, part of the NKR Foreign Ministry’s work should
be transferred to Armenia, where the representations of diplomatic
missions and international organizations are situated. In this
connection, he said that Arman Melikyan would also continue holding
the post of NKR permanent representative in Armenia for some time.

Today the NKR president also appointed Vahram Bagdasaryan minister
of agriculture. Earlier, Vahram Bagdasaryan held the post of deputy
minister of agriculture. Former Minister Benik Bakhshyan has been
appointed adviser to the NKR prime minister.