David Tonoyan

David Tonoyan
Դավիթ Տոնոյան
Defence Minister of Armenia
Assumed office
10 May 2018[1]
President Armen Sarkissian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
Preceded by Vigen Sargsyan
Minister of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia
In office
6 February 2017 – 10 May 2018
President Serzh Sargsyan
Armen Sarkissian
Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan
Preceded by Armen Yeritsyan
Succeeded by Hrachya Rostomyan
Personal details
Born December 27, 1967 (age 51)
Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Political party Independent
Children 2

David Edgari Tonoyan (Armenian:Դավիթ Էդգարի Տոնոյան; born December 27, 1967) is an Armenian politician, and the current Defence Minister of Armenia.

Biography

Tonoyan with Seyran Ohanyan.

He was born on December 27, 1967, in the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk (Now Oskemen), in the East Kazakhstan Region of the Kazakh SSR, or modern day Kazakhstan. In 1986, he joined the Soviet Armed Forces's Transcaucasian Military District. In 1991, he moved to Yerevan to attend Yerevan State University. Between 1998 and 2007, Tonoyan held various positions at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, serving as the Armenian Representative in NATO for three years. In 2007, Tonoyan returned to Armenia to become the head of departments on international military cooperation and defense policy in the Ministry of Defense.

Tonoyan with Anatoly Antonov in 2012.

From 2010 to 2017, Tonoyan served a First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, serving under Seyran Ohanyan and Vigen Sargsyan. According to a presidential decree signed on February 6, David Tonoyan was appointed to the position of Minister of Emergency Situations.[2] Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan appointed Tonoyan as defense minister on May 11, 2018, after Pashinyan took office resigned three days earlier. He was recommended to the post by MP Ararat Mirzoyan, who said that Tonoyan was "Absolutely qualified to be Armenian Defense Minister".[3] He is currently married with two children.[4][5]

Education

Awards

Sources

  1. ↑ http://arka.am/en/news/politics/breaking_david_tonoyan_to_be_appointed_as_armenian_defense_minister_pashinyan/
  2. ↑ http://www.armradio.am/en/2017/02/06/david-tonoyan-appointed-minister-of-emergency-situations/
  3. ↑ https://news.am/eng/news/448373.html
  4. ↑ http://people-archive.ru/character/david-edgarovich-tonoyan
  5. ↑ "Official Government Website". Retrieved 2018-07-27.


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