Karen Mirzoyan

Karen Mirzoyan is a citizen of the unrecognized Artsakh Republic. In September 2012 he became the Republic's Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1]

Karen Mirzoyan
Mirzoyan in 2013
Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh
In office
22 September 2012 – 25 September 2017
Prime MinisterArayik Harutyunyan
Preceded byVasily Atajanyan (Acting)
Succeeded byMasis Mayilyan
Personal details
Political partyFree Motherland

Career

Foreign Minister

On June 6, 2013, Mirzoyan was interviewed by France24,[2] and on July 24, 2014 Mirzoyan was interviewed by the European Times.[3]

In September 2014, Mirzoyan led a diplomatic mission to the Basque Parliament.[1] Mirzoyan met with Bakartxo Tejeria Otermin—speaker of the Basque Parliament. He also toured Guernica. The Basque Parliament and the Nagorno-Karabakh's legislature passed reciprocal motions recognizing one another's right to national autonomy.[1]

Remaining Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), in March 2017, he visited Greece as part of an event hosted by the Armenian National Committee of Greece.[4]

In September 2017, Karen Mirzoyan was succeeded as Foreign Minister of the Artsakh Republic by Masis Mayilyan.[5]

See also

References
  1. "NKR Foreign Minister met with the Chairman of Basque Parliament". Armenian Radio. 2014-09-13. Archived from the original on 2014-09-15.
  2. Douglas Herbert (2013-06-13). "The Interview: Karen Mirzoyan, Nagorno-Karabakh's Foreign Policy Chief". France24. Archived from the original on 2014-07-23. Retrieved 2014-09-15. Douglas Herbert asks Nagorno-Karabakh's Foreign Policy Chief whether he fears more fighting to come.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  3. "Nagorno-Karabakh is where Europe begins: Karen Mirzoyan gave interview to The European Times". Armenpress. 2014-07-30. Archived from the original on 2014-09-15. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is working hard at promoting an international recognition of the country’s independence, peaceful settlement of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, attracting the foreign investments to the NKR economy, as well as promoting along with the strengthening of Armenia-Diaspora cooperation.
  4. "Artsakh Foreign Minister Karen Mirzoyan Visits Greece", The Armenian Weekly, March 14, 2017, retrieved April 3, 2017
  5. "Masis Mayilyan appointed Artsakh Foreign Minister". mediamax. Yerevan. September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
Political offices
Preceded by
Vasily Atajanyan (acting)		 Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh
22 September 2012–present		 Incumbent
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