ARMENIAN PRESIDENT APPOINTS NEW TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION AND EMERGENCY MINISTERS

ArmInfo
2010-03-15 20:16:00

ArmInfo. Today President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan decreed to dismiss
Minister of Transport and Communication of Armenia Gurgen Sargsyan
and Minister for Emergency Situations of Armenia Mher Shahgaldyan
and to appoint Manuk Vardanyan and Armen Yeritsyan in their place.

Manuk Vardanyan was born in Gyumri in 1961. In 1983 he graduated from
Moscow Land and Construction Institute. In 1995 he was elected as
member of the National Assembly of Armenia. In 1996-1997 Vardanyan
was appointed as Head of Land Register Department of the Ministry of
Urban Development. In 1997-2009 he chaired the Real Estate Register
Committee of the Government of Armenia. Vardanyan has been granted
Anania Shirakatsi Medal and the Prime Minister’s medal.

Armen Yeritsyan was born in Yerevan in 1960. In 1986 he graduated from
special militia school in Kaliningrad, in 1990 from high investigation
school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of USSR in Volgograd. In
1982-2001 he worked in the police. In 2001 he was appointed as Deputy
Minister of Internal Affairs of Armenia, in 2003 as deputy and in
June 2008 as first deputy chief of the police.

Yeritsyan has been granted Courage Order and Mkhitar Gosh Medal.

To recall, the Political Council of the Orinats Yerkir Party held
a sitting and took a decision to withdraw Gourgen Sargsyan and Mher
Shahgeldyan from ministerial posts for the intra-party work. Earlier
the newly-appointed ministers A.Yeritsyan and M. Vardanyan had joined
the Orinats Yerkir Party.