Karen Mirzoyan
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Karen Mirzoyan | |
|---|---|
| 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 of Armenia and previously of the Republic of Artsakh. From September 2012 until September 2017 he served as the Republic's Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1]
Foreign minister
On June 6, 2013, Mirzoyan was interviewed by France24,[2] and on July 24, 2014 Mirzoyan was interviewed by the European Times.[3]
In September 2014, Mirzoyan led a diplomatic mission to the Basque Parliament.[1] Mirzoyan met with Bakartxo Tejeria Otermin—speaker of the Basque Parliament. He also toured Guernica. 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]
Ambassador-at-large
On June 28, 2019, he was appointed Ambassador-at-Large by Nikol Pashinyan.[6]
On November 16, 2020, during the political crisis created by the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement, he resigned from his post.[7]
