ARSHAK POLADIAN APPOINTED RA AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY TO SYRIA

Noyan Tapan
Aug 24, 2007

YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Arshak Poladian has been appointed
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia
to the Arabic Republic of Syria (residence Damascus) by the August
23 decree of the RA President. Below the brief biography of Arshak
Poladian is presented, which was provided to Noyan Tapan by the Press
and Information Department of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Arshak Poladian was born on May 15, 1948. In 1965 he started his
working activity in the printing-house of Etchmiadzin under the
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia as a compositor of Arabian
languages. He studied in the historical-geograpical department of the
Yerevan Institute after Khachatur Abovian between 1968 to 1972. He
worked in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy
of Sciences of Armenia from 1967 to 2000 as a laboratory assistant at
first, then as a junior, senior and leading scientific worker. In 1984
he defended a scientific thesis and received a candidate doctorate on
historical sciences. He also worked in the chair of Arabian philology
of the department of oriental studies of the Yerevan State University
as a senior lecturer at first, then as a professor between 1991 and
2000. In 1996 he defended a scientific thesis and received a doctor’s
degree on historical sciences.

Since 1993 Arshak Poladian has passed to diplomatic work in the RA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs as chief of the department of Arabic
countries. In 1998 he was appointed adviser of RA Minister of Foreign
Affairs on issues concerning Near and Middle East. He founded the RA
Embassy in the United Arab Emirates in 2000. He held the office of RA
Charge d’Affaires until 2002 and was appointed RA Ambassador to that
country between 2002 to 2006. In 2003 he was appointed Ambassador of
the Republic of Armenia to the State of Kuwait and Kingdom of Bahrain.

Arshak Poladian is the author of numerous scientific monographies
and articles, which have been published in scientific collections and
periodicals of different countries in the Armenian, Russian, English,
Arabian, and other languages.