GEGHAM GHARIBJANIAN APPOINTED RA DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER
ATTENTION, CORRECTED NEWS YEREVAN, January 14 (Noyan Tapan).
According to the RA President Press Office, Gegham Gharibjanian was
appointed the RA Deputy Foreign Minister by the January 13 decree of
the RA President Robert Kocharian. The RA Foreign Ministry’s Press
and Information Department provided the following biographical data on
Gegham Gharibjanian: G. Gharibjanian was born in 1951 in Yerevan. In
1971 he graduated from the Department of Oriental Sciences of Yerevan
State University. In 1994 he attended the higher courses of public
administration at the University of California. During the period of
1973-1991, he worked in the Committee on Cultural Links with Diaspora,
during 1978-1981 was dispatched to Iran as a translator. In 1991-1995
he held the position of the RA Deputy Minister of Labor and Social
Security. In 1995 G. Gharibjanian was elected deputy of the RA
National Assembly. In 1995-1997 he was Deputy Chairman of the Standing
Committee on Social, Health and Environmental Issues of the RA
National Assembly, in 1997-1999 – Chairman of the same committee,
Chairman of the Armenia-Iran deputy group of the RA NA, Deputy
Chairman of the RF Federal Assembly and the RA National Assembly
Interparliamentary Group, member of the RA NA delegation in the
Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS countries, Chairman-Founder of
the “Social State” deputy group. In 1998 G.Gharibjanian was elected
full member of the International Academy of Sciences on Nature and
Society. In January, 1999 he was appointed as Armenia’s Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Iran and pluralistically as
Ambassador to Quatar. He has a diplomatic rank of plenipotentiary
ambassador. He is fluent in Persian, English, Russian and
Turkish. G. Gharibjanian is married and has three children.