RA GOVERNMENT APPOINTS NEW REGIONAL GOVERNORS IN LORI AND ARMAVIR
Noyan Tapan
Dec 11 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN. It was decided at the December 8
special sitting of the RA Government to appoint Aram Kocharian as
the Lori Regional Governor and Ashot Ghahramanian as the Armavir
Regional Governor. Noyan Tapan was informed about it by the RA
Government’s Information and Public Relations Department. The newly
appointed Governors’ brief biographic data are presented below:
Aram Vladimir Kocharian was born in 1952, in Kirovakan. He entered
and gratuated from the Yerevan Kh.Abovian State Pedagogical Institute
in 1975-1979. He worked at the Kirovakan Instrument Making Technical
School as the history, political economy teacher in 1979-1985. He was
the instructor, department head of the CPA Gugark regional committee
in 1991-1996. He occupied the post of the deputy director general of
the Vanadzor "Hats" (bread) commercial-industrial union in 1997, and
the post of the Education Department Chief of the RA Lori Governor’s
Office in 1997-1999. He was the RA Lori Deputy Governor in 1999-2005,
and the Deputy Chairman of the RA Social Insurance State Fund from
2005 till the appointment. He is married, has two children, is a RPA
member. Ashot Sargis Ghahramanian was born in the village of Aygeshat,
the region of Hoktemberian, in 1949. He graduated from the Yerevan
State University with specialty of lawyer in 1972. He worked as the
inspector of the department on struggle against plunder of socialistic
property of the Etchmiadzin Internal Affairs Department in 1975-1976,
as the inspector, senior inspector of the office on struggle against
plunder of socialistic property of the USSR Ministry of Internal
Affairs in 1976-1980. He occupied the post of the section chief of
the department on struggle against plunder of socialistic property
the Yerevan Internal Affairs Office, then the post of the section
chief of the criminal investigation department of the same office
from 1980. He was the chief of the social-legal department of the
staff office of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1992-1993, and
occupied the post of the Internal Affairs Department Chief of Goris,
Masis, Etchmiadzin, Gyumri, in different years from 1993. He worked
as the Chief of the Internal Affairs Department of the marz of Lori
in 1996-1999, he was the Yerevan Internal Affairs City Office Chief
in 1999, and occupied the post of the RA Police Department Chief of
the marz of Syunik from 2002 till the appointment. He is married,
has three children, is non-partisan.