ARAM G. SARGSIAN APPOINTED FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN OF WORLD ARMENIAN CONGRESS
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Oct 17 2007
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 17, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. By the decision
of Ara Abrahamian, the Chairman of the World Armenian Congress (WAC),
Aram G. Sargsian, the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Armenia
(DPA), was appointed WAC’s First Vice-Chairman. He will coordinate
programs to be implemented with the Armenian structures of the
Diaspora, as well as with international organizations.
According to the report provided to Noyan Tapan by the World Armenian
Congress, the new appointment is conditioned by the necessity to
promote actions aimed at solution of all-national problems.
Below are Aram G. Sargsian’s biographical data:
He was born in 1946 in Yerevan. In 1966, after leaving secondary
school he worked as a worker.
In 1972 he graduated from V. Brusov Institute of Russian and Foreign
Languages. Parallel with his studies he worked as a correspondent
of Yerevan Tyre Factory’s newspaper, Secretary of Young Communists’
League, then as a correspondent of the Komsomolets newspaper.
In 1972-74 he continued his studies in Moscow, where he got the
speciality of a journalist. In 1974 he worked as a correspondent of
the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in Moscow.
In November, 1990 he was elected Secretary of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Armenia and in June, 1991 First Secretary
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia.
The Democratic Party of Armenia was created in 1991, the constituent
assembly of which elected Aram Sargsian as the party Chairman.
He formed the National Consent bloc in 1996 jointly with heads of
a number of opposition parties, was registered as a candidate for
presidency.
He worked as an Adviser to the RA President on Foreign Political
Issues since May 1, 1998. In June, 1999 he resigned and was relieved
of that post.
He is married, has three children.