Hovik A. Abrahamyan (Armenian: Հովիկ Արգամի Աբրահամյան) is a member of the National Assembly of Armenia from the Republican Party.^[1] Previousely he was the speaker of the National Assembly.^[2][3]

Personal life[link]

Hovik Abrahamyan was born on 24 January 1958 in Mkhchyan village, Ararat Marz of Armenia. He is married and has three children and five grandchildren.

Abrahamyan graduated from the Armenian State University of Economics and hold different managerial positions in brandy business till 1995.^[4]

In Parliament[link]

Mr Abrahamyan served as a Member of Parliament for the first convocation of Armenian Parliament from 1995 to 1999. He was again elected to serve as an MP on August 24, 2008 and as the Speaker of Parliament on September 29, 2008. On November 21, 2011 Hovik Abrahamyan resigned as the Speaker (while staying as a Member of the Parliament)^[1] and Samvel Nikoyan was elected instead to serve as the Speaker.^[5]

In the Government[link]

In the years 2000 to 2008 Hovik Abrahamyan held the position of Minister of Territorial Addministration of Armenia. He also held the position of Armenian Vice Prime Minister in the years 2007-2008. Briefly he served as the Secretary General of Armenian Presidential Staff.^[1][4]

Public Service[link]

Hovik Abrahamyan has served as the Mayor of Artashat (1996–1998) and as the Marzpet of Ararat Marz (1998–2000).

He is a Member of the Security Council of Armenia, the Chairman of the board of Armenian State University of Economics and a Member of the Board of Yerevan State University.

Honours[link]

Hovik Abrahamyan has been awarded Anania Shirakatsi Medal, Prime Minister’s Commemorative Medal, Marshal Baghramyan Medal and Fridtjof Nansen commemorative gold medal.^[1]

References[link]

Paruyr Hayrikyan (also known as Paruir Airikian; born July 5, 1949) is an Armenian politician and former Soviet dissident.^[1][2]

Paruyr Hayrikyan - Union for National Self-Determination

In Soviet times, he was placed several times in penal labor camps for his activiies and eventually stripped of Soviet citizenship and exiled to Ethiopia after his accusations of Soviet leadership in the instigation of Sumgait pogroms of Armenian population. In Addis Ababa he applied for and was granted asylum by the United States, where he remained for some time. In 1990, following pressure of a group of United States senators led by Bob Dole, Mikhail Gorbachev restored Hayrikyan's citizenship and allowed him to return. Since then Hayrikyan has taken an active part in Armenian political life.^[1]

Paruyr Hayrikyan from 1967 a member National United Party (NUP) and then head of the (NUP) from 1968. Afterwards in 1987 Paruyr Hayrikyan bacame leader and founder of the Union for National Self-Determination (UNSD) political party. P. Hayrikyan is known and acknowledged as the founder and director of the demctratic movements in the Soviet Union. He is also a writer and a composer.

National United Party (NUP) was founded in 1966 on April 24. NUP's three founders were Haykaz Khachatryan, Stephan Zatikyan and Shahen Harutyunyan. When the founders of the party were imprisoned in 1968 after the arrest of the founders and with their confinement Hayrikyan becomes head of the National United Party (NUP). The main goals of (NUP) were independence of Soviet Armenia and Soviet Russia and the elimination of the consequences of the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923). In 1973 in the National United Party (NUP)'s re-elected president P. Hayrikyan founded and established "The Road to Independence through Referendum Strategy".

Union for National Self-Determination (UNSD) party was established by Paruyr Hayrikyan in September 1987. Union for National Self-Determination (UNSD) was the first openly operating national-political-democratic organization within the territory of the USSR. UNSD published the "Independence" weekly newspaper starting from October 24th of 1987. The "Independence" weekly newspaper was the first alternative political periodic newspaper in the Soviet Union.

References[link]

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