Zohrab Mnatsakanyan

Zohrab Hrachiki Mnatsakanyan (Armenian: Զոհրաբ Հրաչիկի Մնացականյան, born 20 March 1966) is an Armenian diplomat. Mnatsakanyan previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs[1][2] and Armenia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.[3]

Zohrab Mnatsakanyan
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
12 May 2018 – 16 November 2020
PresidentArmen Sarkissian
Prime MinisterNikol Pashinyan
Preceded byEduard Nalbandyan
Succeeded byAra Ayvazyan
Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations in New York
In office
10 June 2014 – 12 May 2018
PresidentSerzh Sargsyan
Armen Sarkissian
Prime MinisterKaren Karapetyan
Serzh Sargsyan
Nikol Pashinyan
Preceded byKaren Nazaryan
Succeeded byMher Margaryan
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
2011–2014
PresidentSerzh Sargsyan
Prime MinisterTigran Sargsyan
Permanent Representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe
In office
2008–2011
PresidentSerzh Sargsyan
Prime MinisterTigran Sargsyan
Preceded byChristian Ter-Stepanyan
Succeeded byArmen Papikyan
Ambassador of Armenia to Switzerland and the United Nations in Geneva
In office
2002–2008
PresidentRobert Kocharyan
Prime MinisterAndranik Margaryan
Serzh Sargsyan
Preceded byKaren Nazaryan
Succeeded byCharles Aznavour
Personal details
Born (1966-03-20) March 20, 1966
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyIndependent
Spouse(s)Irina Igitkhanyan (1991-Present)
ChildrenGevorg and Hayk
Alma materMoscow State Institute of International Relations
University of Manchester
ProfessionDiplomat, Politician
AwardsMkhitar Gosh medal (2011)

Early life and education

Mnatsakanyan was born on 20 March 1966 in Yerevan. In 1989 he had an academic visit and internship at the Embassy of Soviet Union in Washington, D.C., United States.[4] In 1990, at the age of about twenty-four, Mnatsakanyan graduated from the Faculty of International Business Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. A year later, he received Master's degree in Western European Politics at the Faculty of Politics, Economics and Social Studies at the Victoria University of Manchester in the UK.

Career

Mnatsakanyan started his diplomatic career in 1991 as a Third then Second Secretary in the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia. Subsequently, he moved to Embassy of Armenia in the United Kingdom in 1993 serving as Second then First Secretary until 1997. From 1995 to 1997, he was also the First Secretary of the Embassy in the Holy See with residence in London. Mnatsakanyan returned to Armenia in 1997 where he served as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister for less than a year, until he returned to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as Head of the First European Department until 1998, then Head of the Department of Europe until 1999. In 1999, he joined the office of President of Armenia as the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Department until 2002.

Mnatsakanyan was appointed as Armenian Ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva in 2002 serving until 2008. At the same time, he served as Armenian ambassador to Switzerland. Subsequently, he was appointed as Armenian ambassador to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France in 2008 serving until 2011. He was appointed as Deputy Foreign Minister in 2011 and served until 2014, before serving again as Ambassador to the United Nations, this time in New York, until 2018.[5]

On 12 May 2018, he was appointed Foreign Minister of Armenia by a decree of the Armenian President Armen Sarkissian.

On November 16, 2020, during the political crisis caused by the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement, he resigned from his post, due to disagreements with PM Nikol Pashinyan.[6][7]

Personal life

Mnatsakanyan speaks Armenian, English, Russian and French.

Mnatsakanyan is married with two sons.

Awards

In 2011, he was awarded the Mkhitar Gosh medal for his public service.[8]

See also

References
  1. "В Армении сформировано новое правительство". РИА Новости (in Russian). 2018-05-12. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
  2. "Zohrab Mnatsakanyan appointed Foreign Minister". news.am.
  3. "ՀՀ նախագահի հրամանագրերը - Փաստաթղթեր - Հայաստանի Նախագահ". www.president.am. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  4. "Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs". www.mfa.am/. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  5. "Հայաստանի Հանրապետության դիվանագիտական ներկայացուցիչներ". despan.am. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  6. Armenia's foreign minister resigns week after ceasefire deal with Azerbaijan Al-Arabiya, 16 November 2020
  7. Armenia’s PM says will sack foreign minister Aysor, 16 November 2020
  8. "Zohrab Mnatsakanyan - Government - Team Members - Government of Armenia". Government of Armenia. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
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