In office 4 April 2007 – 9 April 2008 Acting: 25 March 2007 – 4 April 2007
President
Robert Kocharyan
Preceded by
Andranik Margaryan
Succeeded by
Tigran Sargsyan
Minister of Defence
In office 20 May 2000 – 26 March 2007
Prime Minister
Andranik Margaryan
Preceded by
Vagharshak Harutiunyan
Succeeded by
Mikael Harutyunyan
In office 21 August 1993 – 17 May 1995
Prime Minister
Hrant Bagratyan
Preceded by
Vazgen Manukyan
Succeeded by
Vazgen Sargsyan
Minister of Interior and National Security
In office 4 November 1996 – 11 June 1999
Prime Minister
Armen Sarkissian Robert Kocharyan Armen Darbinyan
Preceded by
Vano Siradeghyan
Succeeded by
Suren Abrahamyan
Personal details
Born
Serzhik Azati Sargsyan
(1954-06-30) 30 June 1954 (age 69) Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union
Political party
Communist Party (?–1988) Pan-Armenian National Movement (1989–?) Republican Party (2006–present)
Spouse
Rita Sargsyan
(m. 1983; died 2020)
Children
2
Residence
Dzoraghbyur
Alma mater
Yerevan State University
Signature
Website
www.serzhsargsyan.com/en
Military service
Allegiance
Soviet Union Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Branch/service
Soviet Army Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army
Years of service
1972–1974 1989–1992
Battles/wars
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Serzh Azati Sargsyan (Armenian: Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան, pronounced[sɛɾʒsɑɾkʰəsˈjɑn]; born 30 June 1954)[1] is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution.
He won the February 2008 presidential election with the backing of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, a party in which he serves as chairman,[2] and took office in April 2008.[3] On 18 February 2013, he was re-elected as president and served the entire term.
Despite pledging in 2014 not to become prime minister again while supporting an amendment of the constitution in 2015 that would allow it, Sargsyan was again elected prime minister in April 2018, in what opposition figures described as a "power grab".[4] Six days after taking office, Sargsyan resigned after large-scale protests.[5] Sargsyan is currently the leader of the Republican Party, which was the ruling party of Armenia from 1999 to 2018 and is currently represented in parliament as a part of the opposition I Have Honor Alliance.[6]
^Official biography of Serzh Sargsyan Archived 3 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine. President.am. Retrieved on 21 June 2014.
^"RPA nominates Serge Sargsyan for President". PanArmenian.net. 10 November 2007. Archived from the original on 14 June 2008. Retrieved 11 November 2007.
^"Armenia: Sarkisian Sworn In As President" Archived 22 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 9 April 2008.
^"Lawmakers Approve Sarkisian As Armenia's PM Despite Countrywide Protests". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^Hairenik (23 April 2018). "Breaking: Serge Sarkisian Resigns as Prime Minister". The Armenian Weekly. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
^"Acting PM Karapetyan will start talks over candidates for PM on April 25". news.am. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
Serzh Azati Sargsyan (Armenian: Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան, pronounced [sɛɾʒ sɑɾkʰəsˈjɑn]; born 30 June 1954) is an Armenian politician who served as the third...
Minister SerzhSargsyan. Others have suspected the possible involvement of foreign powers in the shooting. Despite his mixed legacy, Sargsyan is now widely...
one year for defamation against then Minister of National Security SerzhSargsyan. He edited the newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak ("Armenian Times") from 1999...
Aleksandri Sargsyan (Armenian: Ռիտա Ալեքսանդրի Սարգսյան, née Dadayan (Դադայան), 6 March 1962 – 20 November 2020) was the wife of SerzhSargsyan, the President...
political party in Armenia led by the third president of Armenia, SerzhSargsyan. It was the first political party in independent Armenia to be founded...
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progress arose from further meetings in Minsk and Moscow in November 2006. SerzhSargsyan, then Prime Minister of Armenia and having President Kocharyan's backing...
Vazgen Sargsyan's younger brother Aram Sargsyan stated that he has many questions to both governments of Robert Kocharyan and SerzhSargsyan. He claimed...
Contract party). Protests and marches took place initially in response to SerzhSargsyan's third consecutive term as the most powerful figure in the government...
Armenian and Breton given name. Serzh is an alternative Armenian form. Notable people with the name include: SerzhSargsyan (born 1954), Armenian politician...
Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. President SerzhSargsyan offered the Presidency to Sarkissian on an official television broadcast...
elections were held in Armenia on 19 February 2008. Prime Minister SerzhSargsyan was elected in the first round according to official results, but this...
European Union. 9 April 2008 Tigran Sargsyan was appointed as the Prime Minister of Armenia, replacing SerzhSargsyan in this position, who was elected...
related to either the former President of Armenia SerzhSargsyan or the former Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. He left the office after the Velvet Revolution...
process.[citation needed] In his 2015 speech, the President of Armenia SerzhSargsyan stated that he considered Nagorno-Karabakh "an inseparable part of Armenia"...
believed that no candidate would be able to challenge incumbent President SerzhSargsyan, others stated that people see "absence of alternatives" and these factors...
The Second SerzhSargsyan government was the governing body of Armenia from 17 April 2018 until 23 April 2018. SerzhSargsyan was elected by National Assembly...
minister. He took the office on 8 May 2018 following the resignation of SerzhSargsyan. The office of prime minister was first established in 1918 with the...
to step down by Kocharyan, Defense Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, and Interior Minister SerzhSargsyan, who were opposed to Ter-Petrosyan's move to accept...
Aram Zaveni Sargsyan (Armenian: Արամ Զավենի Սարգսյան; born 2 January 1961) is an Armenian political figure. He was Prime Minister of Armenia from 3 November...
the Armenian genocide. During his meeting with Armenia's President SerzhSargsyan in January 2014, the Czech President Miloš Zeman stated: "Next year...
Bakhshi Galandarli – Azerbaijani theatrical figure, actor and director. SerzhSargsyan – third President of Armenia Roza Sarkisian – theatre director in Ukraine...
March 31: Protests in Armenia start over SerzhSargsyan becoming prime minister. 2018 April 23: SerzhSargsyan resigns. 2018 May 8: Nikol Pashinyan assumes...
Armenian Apostolic Church, and ensuring the self-determination of Artsakh. SerzhSargsyan, former Prime Minister and President of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan, Chairman...
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