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    Marios Garoyian elected President of Cyprus Parliament

    07-03-2008 10:48:00 - KarabakhOpen

    Gibrahayer - Nicosia Thursday 6 March, 2008 - Marios Garoyian was today
    elected President of The Cyprus House of Representatives. His political
    career rocketed in the last three years. In 2006 he was elected member
    of Parliemant and then President of DIKO and today he was voted to the
    second highest political position of the country thus becoming the
    highest ranking Armenian political figure outside Armenia.

    Marios Garoyian was born on May 31, 1961. He has a son and a daughter.

    Parliamentary Activities
    At the parliamentary elections of 21 May 2006 he was elected Member of
    the House of Representatives standing as a DIKO candidate in Nicosia.
    He was elected President of the House of Representatives for the
    remainder of the
    Ninth Term of Office of the House.

    He is a member of the Committee of Selection, of the House Standing
    Committee on the Environment and of the House Standing Committee on
    Foreign Affairs and an alternate member of the Special House Committee
    on Declaration and Examination of Financial Interests.
    He is an alternate member of the delegation of the House to the
    Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

    Political - Social Activities
    He was president of the `Anagennisi' student union in Italy (1981) and
    of the National Student Union of Cypriots in Perugia (1983) and a
    member of the Executive Committee of the Pancyprian Student and Young
    Scientists Federation.
    He was also president of the District Committee of the Youth
    Organisation of DIKO (NEDIK) in Nicosia and secretary of Unionism of
    the Labour Department of the party.
    He was director of the President's Office of the House of
    Representatives from 1991 to 2001, during the presidency terms of
    Alexis Galanos and the late Spyros Kyprianou. He was director of the
    Press Office of the President of the Republic Tassos Papadopoulos and
    Deputy Government Spokesman from 2003 to 2006.
    Since 1988 he is a member of the Central Committee of DIKO and since
    1997 a member of the Executive Bureau of the party. On 22 October 2006
    he was elected president of DIKO.
    He is a member of the National Council, the supreme advisory body to
    the President of the Republic on the Cyprus problem.

    Publications
    He has published a series of articles on the Cyprus problem and the
    European Union, as well as on various topics of wider public interest
    in the Cyprus and foreign press. As an international and a political
    analyst he regularly co-operates with the Cyprus and Greek mass media.

    Honorary awards
    The Hellenic Republic has awarded him the `Supreme Commander of Honour'
    decoration.

    Studies
    Political science (specialisation in history and international affairs)
    (University of Perugia, Italy).

    gibrahayer.com
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