On May 5, RA President Robert Kocharian appointed Ashot Kocharian his new press secretary. Ashot Kocharian was born in 1957. Having graduated from the Yerevan Brusov State Pedagogical Institute of the Russian and Foreign Languages, English language department, he continued his education as a post-graduate student at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the RA National Academy of Sciences where he defended his thesis on the issues of war and piece. Mr. Kocharian has taken special diplomatic courses in the Vienna Diplomatic Academy and the Hague Institute of International Relations. Since 1992 he worked in the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2002 until the present appointment Ashot Kocharian was the head of MFA International Organization Department.
President’s previous press secretary, Vahe Gabrielian, was appointed RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in March of the current year.
