ARMENIAN LEADER RESHUFFLES TOP BRASS
Mediamax news agency
20 Jul 07
Yerevan, 20 July: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan signed decrees
today [20 July], shuffling several high-ranking military officials
in the armed forces.
The presidential service reported that Maj-Gen Artush Harutyunyan was
relieved of his post of the military commissar of Armenia. Maj-Gen
Kamo Kochunts, the former deputy head of the General Staff and the
head of the General Staff operations department, was appointed the
new military commissar. A 5-year contract will be signed with Kochunts.
Col Artak Davtyan has been appointed deputy head of the General Staff
and the head of the General Staff operations department. A 5-year
contract will be signed with him.
Lt-Gen Stepan Mirzoyan has been released from the post of the Defence
Ministry’s Vazgen Sargsyan Military Institute to be replaced by
Maj-Gen Garegin Gabrielyan, who is the former commander of the First
Army Corps of the Armenian Armed Forces.
Col Poghos Poghosyan has been appointed the commander of the First
Army Corps of the Armenian Armed Forces.
Col Andranik Makaryan has been appointed the commander of the Fifth
Army Corps of the Armenian Armed Forces; a 5-year contract has been
signed with him.
The former commander of the Fifth Army Corps, Maj-Gen Valeri Grigoryan,
has been appointed the commander of the Fourth Army Corps with a
5-year contract.