On February 18 by decrees of the RA President Robert Kocharian Ashot Kocharian was discharged from the position of the press-secretary of the head of the state and appointed the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia in India. Ashot Kocharian had been appointed to the spokesman’s position on May 5, 2003 (see YPC Weekly Newsletter, May 2-8, 2003).