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    MEP RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTOR'S DEGREE FROM YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/738458/mep-receives-honorary-doctors-degree-from-yerevan-state-university.html
    15:56, 31 October, 2013

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. The Yerevan State University bestowed
    the honorary doctor's degree upon the Member of the European Parliament
    Charles Tannock. The Rector of the Yerevan State University Aram
    Simonyan handed the relevant certificate and commemorative medal over
    to Charles Tannock.

    As reports "Armenpress" Aram Simonyan underscored that the Yerevan
    State University bestows the scientific degree upon the friends and
    partners of the university, public and political figures, who support
    the Armenian people in various spheres.

    Charles Tannock was educated at Bradfield College, Berks followed by
    Balliol College, Oxford and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School,
    London. He is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

    Before being elected to the European Parliament in 1999, Charles
    worked for several years as a Consultant Psychiatrist in London and
    was a Senior Lecturer at University College Hospital. Although he had
    successfully combined political work with medicine while acting as a
    Councillor in his local Earls Court ward (1998-2000), he was obliged
    to give up his practice on taking office in Brussels.

    Having spent his childhood living in various European cities, Charles
    is fluent in Portugese, Spanish, French and Italian. He has travelled
    extensively in South America and Eastern Europe and written political
    pamphlets as well as extensive publications in the medical literature.

    Charles Tannock s was the deputy leader of the EP Observer mission
    to the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential elections. The negative findings
    of this joint mission with the OSCE were a significant factor in
    mobilising international support for Viktor Yushchenko's "Orange
    Revolution".

    He takes a keen interest in enlargement issues.

    He is involved politically in a number of cross party Parliamentary
    groups working to support sufferers from epilepsy, cervical cancer and
    mental illness. He is a member of the European Cancer Patient Coalition
    and the EP Intergroup on Animal Welfare, a former Vice-President of
    the European Friends of Israel and a member of Friends of Tibet.

    Charles was Founder of the EP Friends of India, a founder member of
    the EP Friends of the Commonwealth, a member of the advisory board of
    the EU Friends of Armenia, honorary EP Parliamentary Adviser to Save
    the Assyrians Campaign and Anglicans for Israel, and the UK Friends
    of Falun Gong. He is on the Executive Committee of the Conservative
    Friends of Bangladesh and an Ambassador for FRODO, a UK registered
    charity which helps Romanian disabled orphans. He is an EP Attachment
    Host for the UK John Smith Memorial Trust and the Parliament and
    Industry Trust. He is Chairman of the EP-Taiwan Friendship Group
    and the EP-Sovereign Military Order of Malta ("Knights of Malta")
    Friendship Group. He is the European Parliamentary adviser to the UK
    Overseas Territory Association. He was appointed a Commissioner for
    Human Rights of the UK Conservative Party in November 2011.

    In the European Parliament, Charles Tannock is Foreign Affairs and
    Human Rights Spokesman for the UK Conservative delegation. He was
    elected to the UK Conservative delegation Bureau between 2005-07. He
    is currently a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee -
    where he is also the European Conservatives and Reformist Group
    Co-ordinator (Spokesman)- and he is also a full member of the Human
    Rights Subcommittee. From 2000-2004 he served in the UK Conservative
    delegation Whips Office rising to Deputy Chief Whip. He was between
    1999-2001 the Conservative Party Spokesman on Financial Services.




    From: A. Papazian
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