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Armen Sarkissian
Արմեն Սարգսյան
Official portrait, 2018
4th President of Armenia
In office 9 April 2018 – 1 February 2022
Prime Minister
Serzh Sargsyan Nikol Pashinyan
Preceded by
Serzh Sargsyan
Succeeded by
Alen Simonyan (Acting)
5th Prime Minister of Armenia
In office 4 November 1996 – 20 March 1997
President
Levon Ter-Petrosyan
Preceded by
Hrant Bagratyan
Succeeded by
Robert Kocharyan
Personal details
Born
(1952-06-23) 23 June 1952 (age 71) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party
Independent
Spouse
Nouneh Sarkissian
Children
2
Education
Yerevan State University
Signature
Armen Vardani Sarkissian (Armenian: Արմեն Վարդանի Սարգսյան;[a]) (born 23 June 1953) is an Armenian[1][2][3][4][5][6] politician, physicist, investor, businessman, and computer scientist who served as the 4th president of Armenia from 2018 to 2022.[7] He also served as Prime Minister of Armenia from 1996 to 1997. He was the first president of post-Soviet Armenia born in former Armenian SSR.
Sarkissian has been one of the longest serving ambassadors of any country to the United Kingdom, a role to which he was first appointed in 1992-1996, before returning in 1998 and 2013. He was also Armenia’s maiden ambassador to the Vatican, the European Union, NATO, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium, and served as “Senior Ambassador” to Europe.
Sarkissian served as the first chairman of the Global Council on Energy Security at the World Economic Forum, with which he has had a long association. He has authored numerous scientific articles and is a speaker and commentator on international affairs. His op-eds and essays have appeared in publications such as the Times, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, Time magazine, Newsweek, Hollywood Reporter and the Wall Street Journal.
In October 2022, Sarkissian announced that he was working on a new book titled The Small States Club: How Small Smart States can Save the World, to be published by Hurst Publishers. [1] [2]. In January 2023, The Small States Club was listed alongside forthcoming books by Martin Wolf and Peter Frankopan as one of the “15 books to look forward to in 2023” by the Diplomatic Courier. [3]
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Turkey." On 10 August 2020 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President ArmenSarkissian and parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan issued statements on the centenary...
Moscow when she presented her credentials in Armenia to President ArmenSarkissian in January 2019. Later, in April 2019, she presented her credentials...
2018, on the proposal of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President ArmenSarkissian appointed Lilit Makunts Minister of Culture of Armenia. In the 2018...
lord Hussein Salem, Egyptian businessman and advisor to Hosni Mubarak ArmenSarkissian, former President of Armenia Eduard Seidel, German businessman Álvaro...
parties issue joint statement on Treaty of Sevres, News.am President ArmenSarkissian: “The Treaty of Sèvres even today remains an essential document for...
in August 2021. Following the resignation of President of Armenia ArmenSarkissian in January 2022, the ruling Civil Contract Party nominated Khachaturyan...
II, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Armenian President ArmenSarkissian. Foreign leaders soon congratulated Zourabichvili during her time as...
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project. The French President Emmanuel Macron and the Armenian President ArmenSarkissian were present at the Aznavour Centre project presentation. Aznavour...
2021-06-03. "President ArmenSarkissian received representatives of the Democratic Party of Armenia". president.am. "President ArmenSarkissian continues consultations...
in 2013 and the Order of Honor in 2017. He met President of Armenia ArmenSarkissian on several occasions. In October 2016 Gregorian joined other prominent...
elections were held in Armenia on 3 March 2022, following President ArmenSarkissian's resignation on 23 January 2022. In accordance with Article 124 of...
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