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TARON MARKARYAN BECOMES YEREVAN MAYOR
Vestnik Kavkaza
Nov 15 2011
Russia
The Yerevan Council of Elders has unanimously elected Taron Markaryan
as the Mayor of Yerevan, News Armenia reports.
The election process was initiated by the City Council of Elders
on November 4. Earlier reports said that the Republican Party of
Armenia had introduced Vice-Mayor Taron Markaryan as candidate for
the position on October 31.
Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan resigned in on October 28 due to change
of job and personal reasons.
Head of the fraction of the Republican Party, Derenik Dumanyan, called
Markaryan the most suitable candidate for the position. Markaryan
himself thanked the party, its chairman, Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan and said that he has a good understanding of the job.
Taron Markaryan, a son of former PM Andranik Markaryan who died in
2007, had been born in Yerevan on April 17, 1978. He left school
N177 and entered the Armenian Agriculture Academy in 1995. Markaryan
graduated at the academy in 2001 and received a master's degree in
engineering as a specialist in agricultural mechanization.
He was a chief specialist and then head of the section for regional
subdivision of the State Committee for Inventory of Real Estate at
the Yerevan District of Nor-Nork in 2001-2003.
Markaryan became deputy head of the Agency for Management of
Bioresources of the Armenian Ministry for Environment. He was elected
in 2005 and re-elected in 2008 as head of the Avan community. He
became the deputy mayor of Yerevan in 2009.
Markaryan has been chairing the Board of Trustees of the Khut Charity
Fund since 2005. He has been a member of the Republican Party since
1996 and a member of its council since 2006.
He has been supervising the Avan Council of the territorial
organization of the party since 1998.
Markaryan was awarded with the Anania Shirakatsi Medal by the Armenian
president, the Garegin Nzhde Medal of the Defense Ministry, the Golden
Medal awarded by Yerevan mayor, the Golden Medal of the Armenian
Agrarian University, the Golden Medal for the memory of Frityof Nansen
and the Golden Medal "Eagle of Mountainous Armenia", the Order of
Armenian Voluntaries "Yerkrap" - "Sparapet Vasgen Sargsyan".
Vestnik Kavkaza
Nov 15 2011
Russia
The Yerevan Council of Elders has unanimously elected Taron Markaryan
as the Mayor of Yerevan, News Armenia reports.
The election process was initiated by the City Council of Elders
on November 4. Earlier reports said that the Republican Party of
Armenia had introduced Vice-Mayor Taron Markaryan as candidate for
the position on October 31.
Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan resigned in on October 28 due to change
of job and personal reasons.
Head of the fraction of the Republican Party, Derenik Dumanyan, called
Markaryan the most suitable candidate for the position. Markaryan
himself thanked the party, its chairman, Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan and said that he has a good understanding of the job.
Taron Markaryan, a son of former PM Andranik Markaryan who died in
2007, had been born in Yerevan on April 17, 1978. He left school
N177 and entered the Armenian Agriculture Academy in 1995. Markaryan
graduated at the academy in 2001 and received a master's degree in
engineering as a specialist in agricultural mechanization.
He was a chief specialist and then head of the section for regional
subdivision of the State Committee for Inventory of Real Estate at
the Yerevan District of Nor-Nork in 2001-2003.
Markaryan became deputy head of the Agency for Management of
Bioresources of the Armenian Ministry for Environment. He was elected
in 2005 and re-elected in 2008 as head of the Avan community. He
became the deputy mayor of Yerevan in 2009.
Markaryan has been chairing the Board of Trustees of the Khut Charity
Fund since 2005. He has been a member of the Republican Party since
1996 and a member of its council since 2006.
He has been supervising the Avan Council of the territorial
organization of the party since 1998.
Markaryan was awarded with the Anania Shirakatsi Medal by the Armenian
president, the Garegin Nzhde Medal of the Defense Ministry, the Golden
Medal awarded by Yerevan mayor, the Golden Medal of the Armenian
Agrarian University, the Golden Medal for the memory of Frityof Nansen
and the Golden Medal "Eagle of Mountainous Armenia", the Order of
Armenian Voluntaries "Yerkrap" - "Sparapet Vasgen Sargsyan".