APPOINTED AS PRESS SPEAKER

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08:01 pm | March 31, 2009

Official

Nairi Petrosyan has been appointed as press speaker for the RA National
Assembly Chairman starting April 1, 2009.

Petrosyan started his career in 1997 at the RA Foreign Affairs Ministry
in the Departments of Turkey (1997-1998), Relations with Mass Media
(1998-2000) and the South Caucasus (2000-2001).

In 2001-2003, Petrosyan was in charge of the Departments of the
U.S. and Canada, and was Head of the Department of Relations with
Mass Media in 2003-2004. In 2004-2007 Petrosyan was commissioned to
the RA Permanent Representation to the OSCE. Upon termination of his
mission, he was transferred to the OSCE Secretariat as Secretary of
OSCE Regulatory Bodies and Head of Organization of Meetings.

Nairi Petrosyan, 33, graduated from the Department of Turkish Studies
of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Yerevan State University. He
is also a graduate of the American Tufts University, the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy (1999) and the courses designed for
high-ranking officials at the NATO college of Defense stationed
in Rome.