Alexander Arzumanyan (; born 24 December 1959) is

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's first ambassador to the

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(from 1992 to 1993) and to the

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(from 1992 to 1996). He served as minister of foreign affairs from 1996 until his resignation, with President

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, in 1998. Since then, he has been involved in local politics, as chairman of the

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(2000–2002), and in the private sector, as chief advisor to the president of Armagrobank (1998–2000). At present, he works with local NGOs in the area of human rights, democracy, and regional cooperation, and is a founding member of the Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission, an independent group of prominent Armenians and Turks. The TARC was established in July 2001 to promote mutual understanding and good will between the people of Armenia and

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, and to encourage improved relations between the countries. In July 2002, the TARC commissioned a groundbreaking legal analysis regarding the applicability of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to the Armenian Genocide from the New York-based

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. Since 2017 he is the ambassador of Armenia to

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.CV of Alexander Arzumanyan
at the website of the Armenian embassy in Copenhagen

Biography

Arzoumanian holds a BS from

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia The Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Russian language, Russian: Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы), also known as RUDN University and until 1 ...

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and an MS in mathematics from

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; , , ), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919, it is the largest university in the country. It is thus informally known as Armenia's ...

. He was working as a theoretical mathematician at the Yerevan Automated Control Systems Scientific Research Institute when he became involved in the independence movement in the late 1980s. He ran the information center of the Armenian national movement, and published the Movement's newspaper and other samizdat literature until Armenia became independent in 1991.

External links

Alexander Arzoumanian Arrested
hetq.am

References

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