Karen Grigory Sargsyan (; born 18 December 1980) is the former

Minister of Internal Affairs An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

of the

Republic of Artsakh Artsakh ( ), officially the Republic of Artsakh or the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ( ), was a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory was internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Between 1991 and 2023, Artsakh cont ...

.ARKA News Agency
- "Artsakh president appoints chief of police and head of emergency service", 27 January 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- "Separatist leader rejects Karabakh's status within Azerbaijan", 26 January 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021. The ministry was disbanded along with the Artsakh government on 1 January 2024.

Career

From 2004 to 2014 he served in the republic's State Tax Service. From then until 2017 he served in a variety of task forces by decree of the

President of Artsakh The president of the Republic of Artsakh (, ) is the head of state and head of government of the government-in-exile of the once de facto Republic of Artsakh. In a constitutional referendum held in 2017, citizens of the republic voted in favo ...

Bako Sahakyan Bako Sahaki Sahakyan (; born 30 August 1960) is an Armenian politician who served as the third president of the ''de facto''-independent Republic of Artsakh from 2007 to 2020. He is the longest-serving president of Artsakh. He was first elected ...

. On 19 February 2019 he resigned or was dismissed from the post of representing the President at large.ArmInfo
- "Karen Sargsyan dismissed from the post of Artsakh President`s representative at large". Retrieved 28 March 2021. On 26 May 2020, the succeeding President,

Arayik Harutyunyan Arayik Vladimiri Harutyunyan (; born 14 December 1973) is an Armenian politician who served as the fourth president of the Republic of Artsakh from May 2020 to September 2023. Under his predecessor Bako Sahakyan, he served as the sixth and last ...

, appointed Sargsyan as the Director of the

State Service of Emergency Situations The State Service of Emergency Situations () was the emergencies and civil defense ministry of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh (known regionally as Nagorno-Karabakh). The service was authorized to make decisions on the protection of the popu ...

.Armenian Press
- Appointment as Director of State Service of Emergency Situations. Retrieved 31 March 2021. On 26 January 2021 by decree of the President and head of the

Government of Artsakh The Government of the Republic of Artsakh () is the governing authority of the Republic of Artsakh, a once de-facto state, which is now a government-in-exile headed in Yerevan. Executive Branch The executive council of government ministers is ...

, Sargsyan was appointed as Minister of Internal Affairs.Official website of the government of the Republic of Artsakh
- Ministry of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 28 March 2021. The ministry had responsibilities in the areas of policing, fire and rescue, monitoring seismic activity and emergency response. Colonel Artyom Harutyunyan was the Chief of Police. On 20 February 2021, a delegation led by Andranik Piloyan, the Minister of Emergency Situations of

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

, paid an official visit to the Republic of Artsakh. They were met by the President of Artsakh, the Minister of Internal Affairs, and by Mekhak Arzumanyan, the Director of the State Emergency Service of the Republic of Artsakh.Iravaban TV
- "The President of the Artsakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan received the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia Andranik Piloyan: Artsakh SESS", 22 February 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021. The two sides discussed cooperation between the two republics and how to respond to emergency situations.Official website of the Ministry of Emergency Situation of Armenia
- "Minister of Emergency Situations of RA Andranik Piloyan paid a working visit to Artsakh". Retrieved 28 March 2021. He was working with the President to discover the fate of the missing servicemen and civilians and to return the prisoners of war from Azerbaijan.Chap.am
- "President of Artsakh receives several families of missing servicemen"11 February 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021. On 26 March 2021, the Minister dealt with a complaint concerning alleged stone throwing by Azeri servicemen on the Sarushen-Karmir village road. He handed photographic evidence to General

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of the Russian peacekeeping service.Republic of Armenia Public Television
- "Artsakh police reports about incident between Armenians and Azerbaijanis on Sarushen-Karmir village road". 26 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

Personal life

Sargsyan was born in

Stepanakert Stepanakert officially Khankendi is a city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. It was the capital city of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh prior to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in ...

. He is married with four children. In 2003, he graduated 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 ...

with a

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in law. He completed his post graduate education at the Public Administration Academy before undertaking his military service.

References

{{Commons 1980 births Living people Government ministers of the Republic of Artsakh People from Stepanakert Yerevan State University alumni