ArmInfo. Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations, will most likely be appointed the new head of this department. ArmInfo became aware of this from reliable sources.
Zohrab Mnatsakanyan was born in 1966. He was born in Yerevan. Mnatsakanyan is a career diplomat. In 1990 he graduated from the Department of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations,in 1989 he trained at the USSR Embassy in the United States. In 1991, he received his master's degree in Western European politics at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Manchester (Great Britain).
In 1991-1993 years - the third, then the second secretary of the European Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia. In 1993-1997 years - second, then First Secretary of the Armenian Embassy in Great Britain; at the same time (1995- 1997) - the first secretary of the Armenian Embassy in the Vatican (residence in London). In 1997 he was an assistant to the Prime Minister of Armenia. Since 1997, he has been an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia: the head of the first European department, since 1998 - the head of the department of Europe. In 1999-2002-Head of the Department for External Relations of the Office of the President of Armenia.
In 2002-2008, - Permanent Representative of Armenia in the Geneva office of the United Nations and in other international organizations (Geneva, Switzerland).
In 2002-2008, - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Switzerland. In 2008-2011, - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France). From September 2011 to 2014- Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia. Since 2014- Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN.
He speaks Russian, English, French. Colleagues and friends characterize Mnatsakanyan as an exceptionally intelligent and reserved person.