ITAR-TASS News Agency
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March 3, 2005 Thursday

Armenia’s Central Bank chief re-elected for second term

By Tigran Liloyan

YEREVAN

Tigran Sarkisyan, Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia, has been
re-elected for the second seven-year term.

A decision to this effect was made on Wednesday night by the
republican parliament that upheld the respective proposal made by the
country’s president.

Sarkisyan graduated from Lenigrad Financial-and-Economic Institute
with distinction in 1983 and completed a post-graduate course at the
Institute in 1987.

In 1990-95, Sarkisyan was a member, chairman of the standing
commission on finances, credits and budget of Armenia’s Supreme
Council. In 1995-98 he headed the Armenian Banks Association, and has
been the Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia since March 3, 1998.