MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
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PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
Telephone: +37410. 544041 ext 202
Fax: +37410. 562543
Email: press@mfa.am

PRESS RELEASE

312 -06-08-2007

Minister Vartan Oskanian has appointed Vladimir Karapetian as Ministry
Spokesperson and Head of the Press and Information Department. Mr.
Karapetian has been in this position in an acting capacity for the last
year.

Mr. Karapetian, whose last assigned was head of the Press Department’s Media
Relations Division, is a graduate of Yerevan State University’s Department
of Oriental Studies.

Prior to his graduation in 1993, he had served in the Soviet Army.

Mr. Karapetian started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994
as Attache in the CIS Department. In 1996, he served as Third Secretary at
the Armenian Embassy in Ukraine. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Second
Secretary, then Head, of the CIS Countries Division at the CIS Department.
Later he worked as the Head of the Security Cooperation Division of the
Military-Political Department. In 2001-2004, he was Counselor, Deputy Head
of Mission of the Embassy of Armenia in Georgia.

He has participated in several dozen official and working visits, as well as
international conferences. He has also attended various diplomatic training
courses, notably a five-month course at the NATO Defense College in Rome.

He speaks fluent Armenian, Russian and English. He is married and has three
children.

Press and Information Department
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic of Armenia
Tel. + 37410 544041. ext. 202
Fax. + 37410 565601
e-mail: press@mfa.am
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