Arevik Petrosyan (born December 9, 1972, Leninakan ow Gyumri">Gyumri.html" ;"title="ow Gyumri">ow Gyumri Armenia">Gyumri">ow_Gyumri<_a>.html" ;"title="Gyumri.html" ;"title="ow Gyumri">ow Gyumri">Gyumri.html" ;"title="ow Gyumri">ow Gyumri Armenia) is an Armenian stateswoman and lawyer. She graduated from Yerevan State University with a degree from the Department of Law with honors in 1994. Continuing on with post-graduate studies at the same university, she was awarded a Candidate of Sciences (doctorate) in law in 1997, her thesis being "Legal State: General Description, Principles of Organizing and Directions of Activity". From 1994 to 1999, Petrosyan held various positions in the office of the

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, before being appointed Deputy Minister of Justice, a post she held until 2002. In 2002, she was appointed to the first of two terms as a deputy chairperson of the Council of Civil Service, the second beginning in 2007. On May 12, 2007, she was elected to the

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as a member of the

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party. One of the leaders of Prosperous Armenia, she was elected vice president of the National Assembly on November 12. , this is the highest Armenian government position ever held by a woman. On October 7, 2010, she gave up the office to another member of her party at the instigation of Prosperous Armenia. On December 8, President

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appointed Petrosyan to the

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, where she served until 2022.

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