KHACHIK HAROUTIUNIAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF RA NA STANDING COMMITTEE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ISSUES

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 17, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 17, NOYAN TAPAN. Khachik Haroutiunian, the Secretary
of the Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) faction, was elected Chairman
of the RA NA Standing Committee of Agricultural and Environmental
Protection Issues by the close secret ballot of the RA National
Assembly held on June 17.

According to Samvel Nikoyan, the Chairman of the NA Ad Hoc Counting
Commission, 93 out of the 130 deputies of the National Assembly took
part in the ballot. There were 90 ballot-papers in the ballot-box,
two out of which have been invalidated. 80 MPs have voted for and 8
against the candidature of Khachik Haroutiunian.

Khachik Haroutiunian was born in the city of Kirovakan (Vanadzor,
at present) in 1959. He has graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnic
Institute and received a qualification of an engineer-cbuilding
onstructor. He has recently become an MP of the National Assembly
by the proportional list of the Orinats Yerkir Party. He has been a
member of the OYP since 1998. He has been a member of the political
board of the given party since the same year.

Before becoming an MP he worked in the "Wood economy of Dsegh" daughter
branch of the "Armforest" CJSC, where he held the office of the Head
of the daughter branch in 2000-2001.