PRIME MINISTER * DEATH * HISTORY

MEDIAMAX
Armenian Independent News Agency
25 March 07

Yerevan, March 25. /Mediamax/ The passed away Prime Minister of
Armenia was having health problems during the latest few
years-25.03.07-15:20

The official sources have not yet spread the announcement of the death
of the 55-year-old Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, which
took place today as a result of a heart attack.

Mediamax reports that the Leader of the Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA) Andranik Margarian was appointed a Prime Minister of Armenia in
May 2000. He became the first head of the government in the history of
Armenia, who forsuch a long period of time occupied the position of
the Prime Minister.

The RPA is considered one of the favorites for the upcoming
parliamentary elections of May 12 in Armenia.

Mediamax reminds that Andranik Margarian underwent a heart surgery in
autumn 1999.

In October 2001, after the checkup of the heart system of the Prime
Minister in Paris, it was suggested that Andranik Margarian underwent
urgent medical treatment. As the press service of the Armenian
government noted then, `the French physicians resorted to non-surgical
operation to increase the patency of the heart blood vessels of the
Prime Minister’.

In November of 2003, Andranik Margarian underwent general medical
checkup in Moscow.

In December of 2005 and in June 2006 the Prime Minister visited France
to take up current medical checkup.

In February 2006, it was discovered that the Prime Minister of Armenia
Andranik Margarian suffered from duodenitis, which appeared as a
result of cold. –0–