Karen Mirzoyan | |
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| Կարեն Միրզոյան | |
 Mirzoyan in 2013 | |
| Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh | |
| In office 22 September 2012 – 25 September 2017 | |
| President | Bako Sahakyan |
| Prime Minister | Arayik Harutyunyan |
| Preceded by | Vasily Atajanyan(Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Masis Mayilyan |
Karen Mirzoyan (Armenian:Կարեն Միրզոյան) is a diplomat ofArmenia and previously of theRepublic of Artsakh. From September 2012 until September 2017 he served as the Republic's Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1]
On June 6, 2013, Mirzoyan was interviewed byFrance24,[2] and on July 24, 2014 Mirzoyan was interviewed by theEuropean Times.[3]
In September 2014, Mirzoyan led a diplomatic mission to theBasque Parliament.[1] Mirzoyan met with Bakartxo Tejeria Otermin—speaker of the Basque Parliament. He also touredGuernica. The Basque Parliament and the Nagorno-Karabakh's legislature passed reciprocal motions recognizing one another's right to national autonomy.[1]
Remaining Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), in March 2017, he visited Greece as part of an event hosted by the Armenian National Committee of Greece.[4]
In September 2017, Karen Mirzoyan was succeeded as Foreign Minister of the Artsakh Republic by Masis Mayilyan.[5]
On June 28, 2019, he was appointedAmbassador-at-Large byNikol Pashinyan.[6]
On November 16, 2020, during the political crisis created by the2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement, he resigned from his post.[7]
Douglas Herbert asks Nagorno-Karabakh's Foreign Policy Chief whether he fears more fighting to come.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is working hard at promoting an international recognition of the country's independence, peaceful settlement of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, attracting the foreign investments to the NKR economy, as well as promoting along with the strengthening of Armenia-Diaspora cooperation.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Vasily Atajanyan(acting) | Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh 22 September 2012–present | Succeeded by |