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ARMENIA - H.E. Armen Papikyan

Credentials: 19.03.2019

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Date and Place of Birth:
November 22, 1973 in Yerevan

Marital status:
Married with 2 children

EDUCATION
2000 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston, USA
1990-1995 Faculty of International Relations (Specialisation in International Relations and History), “Gladzor” University, Yerevan, Armenia

Fellowship Programs
2001 NATO Defense College, Italy
1999 George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Germany

WORK EXPERIENCE

2018
has been re-appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs by the decision of the Prime Minister

2016
has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs by the decree of the President

2016
Head of Rapporteurs Group (Committee) on Programme, Budget and Administration of Council of Europe

2011 – 2016
Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the Council of Europe (residence in Strasbourg)

2013
Chairman of the Committee of the Ministers’ Deputies of the Council of Europe

2011 Counsellor, European Department, MFA, Armenia

2007 – 2011
Counsellor, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Armenia to the OSCE; Deputy Chief of the Mission

2005 – 2007
Head of Conventional Arms Control Division, Arms Control and International Security Department, MFA, Armenia

2002 – 2005
Second Secretary, Embassy of Armenia in Switzerland (residence in Geneva)

2002 – 2005
Second Secretary, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Armenia to the United Nations Office in Geneva

1999 – 2002
Second Secretary, NATO Division, Arms Control and International Security Department, MFA, Armenia

1997 – 1999
Attaché and Third Secretary, Bilateral Military Cooperation Division, Military-Political Department, MFA, Armenia

Foreign languages:
English, French, Russian

Fotos: Carina Karlovits und Laura Heinschink/HBF