GURGEN SARGSIAN APPOINTED RA MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
Noyan Tapan
April 22, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 22, NOYAN TAPAN. By RA President Serge Sargsian’s April
21 decree Gurgen Sargsian was appointed RA Minister of Transport and
Communication. Noyan Tapan was informed about it by the RA President’s
Press Office.
G. Sargsian was born on June 10, 1964 in Yerevan. In 1986 he
graduated from the Calculation Machinery Department of Yerevan
K. Marx Polytechnic Institute, in 1997 the State Government and Local
Self-Government courses of RA Management School. In 1986-1992 he worked
at Kometa research institute’s Yerevan branch as an engineer. In 1990
he was elected a deputy of Shengavit Regional Council. In 1992-1994 he
worked at Shengavit Regional Council’s Executive Committee, then at the
Gavit state enterprise of Shengavit Regional Council as a first-class
specialist, a chief specialist and head of department and in 1994-2000
he worked at the State Register Department of RA Statistics State
Board as head of department, deputy head of department.
In 2000-2006 he was the deputy head, head of the State Register
Department of the RA Ministry of Justice, head of the State Register
Agency, head of the RA State Register. He is a first-class adviser
of justice, seciond-class state adviser of civil service, a member
of the Union of Lawyers and Political Scientists. On May 12, 2007 he
was elected National Assembly deputy by the proportional system from
the Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) party.
He is married, has two children.