Eduard Nalbandyan

Edward Nalbandian (Armenian Եդվարդ Նալբանդյան; * July 16, 1956 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian politician and currently Minister of Foreign Affairs of his country.

Nalbandian studied until 1978 at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 1988 he obtained at the Institute of Ostwissenschaften the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the degree of candidate of political science with a focus on International Relations.

His diplomatic career began Nalbandian in 1978 at the Soviet Embassy in Lebanon. In 1983 he moved to the Foreign Office to Moscow and went in 1986 as first counselor to the Soviet representative in Egypt. After the collapse of the Soviet Union he was here first a short time in the Russian service, before he was appointed official representative of Armenia in Egypt in 1992. In 1994 he was appointed ambassador to Cairo. His division consisted until his departure in 1998 next to Egypt and Morocco and Oman. In 1999 he moved as Ambassador to France. From 2000, he served as ambassador to Israel from 2004 for Andorra. From December 2006, he also served as an envoy of the President of Armenia Robert Kocharian at the International Organisation of La Francophonie. In April 2008, Nalbandian was appointed in the wake of the inauguration of President Serzh Sargsyan to the Secretary of State. However, he had previously represented his country at numerous international conferences.

Due to the dispute over the valuation of the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians were talking Armenia and Turkey by then no diplomatic relations. On October 10, 2009 signed Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in the auditorium of the University of Zurich two protocols based on them, the diplomatic relations between the two countries normalize again.

Nalbandian is no party. He is married and has one daughter.

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