MNATSAKAN PETROSIAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF NA STANDING COMMITTEE ON
SOCIAL, HEALTHCARE AND NATURE PROTECTION ISSUES

YEREVAN, JUNE 2, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. By the results of the
secret ballot held on June 2 at the parliament, member of the United
Labor Party faction Mnatsakan Petrosian was elected Chairman of RA NA
Standing Committee on Social, Healthcare and Nature Protection
Issues. He was the Vice-Chairman of the above-mentioned committee. 72
out of 131 MPs took part in the voting, 71 of them voted for the
candidature, 1 voted against. M.Petrosian was born on February 16 1956
in the Georgian town of Akhaltsikhe. In 1980 he graduated from Yerevan
Institute of People’s Economy, he is an economist by speciality.

He started his working activity in 1973, worked at different
enterprises, as well as at Armeconombank and Armagrobank. Before being
elected RA MP on December 11 2003 by a proportional system he held the
post of the Deputy Director of the Arsoil company. He is a member of
the United Labor Party, is married, has two children.