KAREN NAZARIAN APPOINTED PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ARMENIA IN UN

Noyan Tapan
Aug 13, 2009

YEREVAN, AUGUST 13, NOYAN TAPAN. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan
signed decree on August 10 about dismissing Armen Martirosyan from
the office of permanent representative of Armenia in UN.

According to the Presidential press service, by another decree the
president appointed Karen Nazaryan as permanent representative of
Armenia in UN (residence in New York).

The working biographic data (in short):

He graduated from Yerevan State University’s Oriental Studies
Department, he studied at the International Relations Chair of the
Diplomatic Academy of Moscow. His diplomatic degree is Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

He worked at the RA Foreign Ministry’s Department on Military-Political
Issues in 1991-1992, and in 1992-1994 he worked at the RA Embassy
to Russia (pluralistically). He was the Secretariate Chief of the RA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Staff head).

He took part in the NATO, OSCE, CIS summits and meetings of the
Ministers, was a member of the RA delegations to the UN, and he was
the RA Ambassador and Permanent Representative to UN Office in Geneva
in 1996-2002.

He was present at the conferences and congresses held by international
and other organizations under the protection of UN as head and deputy
head of RA delegations.

He was the Councillor of the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs in
2002-2004.

He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia
to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2005-2009. He speaks English,
Russian and Persian, is married and has two children.