Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has appointed Karen Nazaryan, who had been dismissed as the representative of the country at the UN on April 22, 2014, as a deputy foreign minister.
Nazaryan was an Armenian envoy to Russia in 1992-1994, head of the Armenian Foreign Ministry’s office in 1994-1996, permanent representative and then the ambassador of Armenia to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva in 1996-2002, an advisor of the foreign minister in 2002-2005, an extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Iran in 2005-2009.
