Vazgen Sargsyan

Wasken Sargsyan (Armenian Վազգեն Սարգսյան / Wasken Sargsyan, in scientific transliteration Vazgen Sargsyan, born March 5, 1959 in Ararat, † October 27, 1999 in Yerevan ) was from 1992 to 1997 and Minister of Defence from 11 June 1999 until his assassination Prime Minister of Armenia.

Biography

Wasken Sargsyan worked after completing his studies in 1979 as a physical education teacher in his hometown. From 1983 to 1986 he also worked for the Komsomol. Then Sargsyan, who himself wrote poetry in his spare time worked until 1989 in the advertising department of the monthly literary magazine Garun ( Գարուն to German Spring).

Since the mid- 1980s, he became involved in the newly awakened Armenian national movement. An important goal was the separation of the majority Armenian -populated Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Azerbaijan SSR and annexation to the Armenian SSR. 1990 saw the first free elections took place largely in the Armenian SSR, where Sargsyan was elected to the Supreme Soviet. In the period from 1990 to 1992 Sargsyan held often in Nagorno-Karabakh, where he fought in paramilitary units against Soviet and Azerbaijani troops. 1992 to 1997 (with a brief interruption in 1995 ) he was Secretary of Defense. While the government crisis in February 1997, he supported the then Prime Minister and future President Robert Kocharian. From 11 June 1999 to 27 October 1999, he was prime minister. He died in an assassination attempt. Armed men stormed the Armenian National Assembly and shot next Sargsyan also the President of Parliament Karen Demirchian and other ministers and MPs simple. The backgrounds of the assassination are not fully understood.

Next Prime Minister was his brother Aram Sargsyan.

National Hero of Armenia
Prime Minister (Armenia )
Person ( Nagorno-Karabakh )
Armenian
Born in 1959
Died in 1999
Man

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