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    ARMENIAN PRESIDENT APPOINTS FOREIGN AND DEFENSE MINISTERS

    Interfax News Agency
    April 14 2008
    Russia

    Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has signed decrees appointing Eduard
    Nalbandian as foreign minister and Seiran Oganian as defense minister,
    the president's press service announced.

    Under the Armenian Constitution, the prime minister forms the
    government, while the president appoints the foreign minister, the
    defense minister, as well as the heads of the tax and customs services.

    Nalbandian assumed the post of Armenian ambassador to France in
    1999, later he combined the post in France with a similar diplomatic
    appointment in Israel, the Vatican and Andorra. In the past two years,
    he has been the Armenian president's envoy to la Francophonie, an
    international organization of French-speaking countries.

    Since May 2007, he has been chief of the General Staff of the Armenian
    Armed Forces and deputy defense minister. Prior to that appointment,
    he served as the Nagorno-Karabakh defense minister for seven years.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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