TATUL MARGARIAN APPOINTED NEW ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO USA

ArmenPress
March 21 2005

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: Armenian president Robert Kocharian
appointed deputy foreign minister Tatul Margarian Armenia’s new
ambassador to the United States of America. He is replacing Arman
Kirakosian.
Tatul Margarian was born in 1964 in Armenia’s southern town of
Kapan. He graduated from a Yerevan Economic Institute in 1985 and
then he continued his post-graduate education at the same institute.
He later studied at the International Studies Department of John
Hopkins University in the USA and studies now at London Political
Sciences and Economics University for a doctoral degree.
In 1990-1991 he worked as an aide to the deputy chairman of
Armenian parliament. In 1994-1998 he served as an advisor at the
Armenian embassy in USA and was head of staff. In 1999 he was
appointed aide to foreign minister and in 2000 deputy foreign
minister. In 2002-2003 he was president Kocharian’s special envoy in
the talks over Nagorno Karabagh problem.
He is fluent in Russian and English, married and has one son.