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OVIK ABRAMYAN ELECTED SPEAKER OF NEW ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT
ITAR-TASS
May 31, 2012 Thursday 03:41 PM GMT+4
Russia
Ovik Abramyan has been elected speaker of the new Armenian parliament.
Abramyan was parliament speaker from September 2008 through November
2011. He was the only candidate at the Thursday voting on the
speaker's candidacy as the republic's National Assembly met for its
first session. The lawmakers voted for Abramyan 102-4. Four ballot
papers were recognized as invalid.
Ovik A.Abramyan was born in the village of Mkhchyan, Artashat district,
Armenian SSR, on January 24, 1958. In 1984, he graduated from the
correspondence department of the Yerevan road construction college as
technician/mechanic, and in 1990s, he graduated from the correspondence
department for accounting and economic activity analysis under the
Yerevan-based institute of national economy with a degree in economics.
1987-1991 -- a member of the Communist Party. A member of Armenia's
Republican Party since 1998.
1977-1979 - army service.
1995-1998 - chairman of the Artashat Town Council, Mayor of Artashat
1999-2000 - head of the administration of the Ararat region 200-2008 -
minster for territorial management. He 2005, he took up the function of
coordinator minister 2007-2008 - deputy prime minister of the republic.
He headed the presidential staff from April through September r0308.
In 2008-2011, he was speaker of the republic's parliament. He
resigned in order to lead the election headquarters of his party at
the parliamentary polls on May 6.
The first session of Armenia's new parliament was led by the eldest
lawmaker, Mkrtich Minasyan, 66.
"We have a vigorous parliament; where the main influential political
forces have the floor," Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said in
his address to the parliament.
"Having various levers of power, including the parliament, gives the
means to reach the objectives - which are important to all of us --
strengthen Armenia, sharply increase its standard of living, stop
emigration, and enhance the country's defense capability.
"All of us, including the lawmakers, face the mission to form new
traditions of political struggle and activity, the traditions which
will rule out or reduce to the minimum the possibility of upheavals
in our country in the next few years and decades," Sargsyan said.
The president thanked all the political forces and residents of
the republic for conducting, through joint efforts, "quite mature
elections."
"Every election in Armenia should be considerably better than the
previous ones," he said.
The Armenian Opposition did not attend the first session.
ITAR-TASS
May 31, 2012 Thursday 03:41 PM GMT+4
Russia
Ovik Abramyan has been elected speaker of the new Armenian parliament.
Abramyan was parliament speaker from September 2008 through November
2011. He was the only candidate at the Thursday voting on the
speaker's candidacy as the republic's National Assembly met for its
first session. The lawmakers voted for Abramyan 102-4. Four ballot
papers were recognized as invalid.
Ovik A.Abramyan was born in the village of Mkhchyan, Artashat district,
Armenian SSR, on January 24, 1958. In 1984, he graduated from the
correspondence department of the Yerevan road construction college as
technician/mechanic, and in 1990s, he graduated from the correspondence
department for accounting and economic activity analysis under the
Yerevan-based institute of national economy with a degree in economics.
1987-1991 -- a member of the Communist Party. A member of Armenia's
Republican Party since 1998.
1977-1979 - army service.
1995-1998 - chairman of the Artashat Town Council, Mayor of Artashat
1999-2000 - head of the administration of the Ararat region 200-2008 -
minster for territorial management. He 2005, he took up the function of
coordinator minister 2007-2008 - deputy prime minister of the republic.
He headed the presidential staff from April through September r0308.
In 2008-2011, he was speaker of the republic's parliament. He
resigned in order to lead the election headquarters of his party at
the parliamentary polls on May 6.
The first session of Armenia's new parliament was led by the eldest
lawmaker, Mkrtich Minasyan, 66.
"We have a vigorous parliament; where the main influential political
forces have the floor," Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said in
his address to the parliament.
"Having various levers of power, including the parliament, gives the
means to reach the objectives - which are important to all of us --
strengthen Armenia, sharply increase its standard of living, stop
emigration, and enhance the country's defense capability.
"All of us, including the lawmakers, face the mission to form new
traditions of political struggle and activity, the traditions which
will rule out or reduce to the minimum the possibility of upheavals
in our country in the next few years and decades," Sargsyan said.
The president thanked all the political forces and residents of
the republic for conducting, through joint efforts, "quite mature
elections."
"Every election in Armenia should be considerably better than the
previous ones," he said.
The Armenian Opposition did not attend the first session.