KARABAGH LEADER REPLACES FOREIGN MINISTER
ArmenPress
Dec 24 2004
STEPANAKERT, DECEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS: Arkady Ghukasian, the leader
of Nagorno-Karabagh, promoted the republic’s Permanent Representative
in Armenia Arman Melikian to the post of foreign minister on Friday.
Melikian’s predecessor Ashot Ghulian was appointed education and
culture minister. As he presented Melikian to the foreign ministry’s
personnel, Ghukasian said that Melikian’s appointment was dictated
by the need to step up Nagorno-Karabagh’s foreign policy activities
in response to recent international developments.
Arman Melikian, 41, was born in Yerevan and graduated from the
Department of Oriental Studies of Yerevan State University. He served
also as Armenia’s ambassador to Kazakhstan.
According to sources in the Karabagh government, new reshuffles in
the Cabinet are very much likely.