VALERI MKRTUMIAN APPOINTED RA CONSUL GENERAL TO SAO PAULO

Noyan Tapan
Dec 05 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. By the RA Foreign Minister’s decree,
Valeri Mkrtumian was appointed the RA Consul General to the city of Sao
Paulo, Brazil, starting from December 1. According to the information
submitted to Noyan Tapan by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and
Information Department, V.Mkrtumian was born in 1948, in Dresden,
Germany. He graduated from the English Language Department of the
Romanic-German Faculty of the Yerevan State Institute of Foreign
Languages after V.Brusov in 1971, and from the Two-year highest
courses of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages after M.Torez,
getting the senior lecturer’s title. V.Mkrtumian has been in the RA
Foreign Ministry’s system since 1992. He occupied posts of the Europe
Department and America Department Chief, was the Foreign Ministry’s
Deputy Secretary General. He worked as the RA Charge d’Affaires to
Canada in 1999-2000, and was the RA Consul General to Los Angeles
in 2000-2003. He was elected the Deputy Chairman of the UN Committee
for Programme and Coordination in 2004. He has occupied the post of
the Foreign Ministry’s International Organizations Department Chief
since 2003. V.Mkrtumian was conferred the diplomatic level of the RA
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in 2001.