Gevorg Volodya Petrosyan ( hy, Գևորգ Վոլոդյայի Պետրոսյան, born in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...

on September 4, 1972 is an

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n lawyer and politician, former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs.

Early life and education

Petrosyan was born in 1972 in

where he attended secondary school № 170. After graduation from it in 1989, he studied at the

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 ...

Faculty of Law, from which he graduated in 1995. The same year he graduated, Petrosyan took part in the military training assemblies and received the military rank of an officer and following it, entered YSU postgraduate course. From 1996 to 2001, Petrosyan was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Yerevan University after Grigor Zohrap and in between those years was a professor of law at

since 1996 and was a member of the RA Bar Association since 1998. The same year, Petrosyan became a Ph.D. Candidate of Judicial Sciences and Reserve Lieutenant, and after dissertation of his thesis and obtaining of a degree, he was appointed assistant at YSU Chair of Civil Law.

Career

From 2002 to 2005, Petrosyan served as the head of the Department of Social Sciences at

Vanadzor State University Vanadzor State University named after Hovhannes Tumanyan (VSU) ( hy, Վանաձորի Հովհաննես Թումանյանի անվան Պետական Համալսարան), is a public university in Vanadzor, Lori Province, Armenia. With 5 facu ...

. Between those years, since 2003, he also served as associate professor of the Faculty of Law and the Chair of Civic Procedure of Yerevan State University and between 2004 and 2005, worked as Advisor to the Head of the Community at

Nor Nork District Nor Nork ( hy, Նոր Նորք, ''Nor Nork'') is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is located at the eastern part of the city. It is bordered by the districts of Nork-Marash, Kentron and Kanaker-Zeytun from the west, ...

, promoting soon after to the Chief of Staff position. From 2005 to 2009, Petrosyan served as

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to the Direct General at

Veon Armenia CJSC Telecom Armenia CJSC ( hy, Տելեկոմ Հայաստան, translit=Telekom Hayastan) (formerly Armentel and VEON Armenia) is an Armenian broadband and telecommunications company. Telecom Armenia, an integrated telecommunications services operat ...

, and later as senior expert on Labor Law Affairs. Between 2007 and 2008, he worked as Head of the Legal Supervision Department at the Audit Chamber of Armenia. He is the coauthor of school textbooks ''State and Fundamentals of Law'' (1998) and ''State and Law'' (2001), and the author of the university textbook ''Labor Law in the Republic of Armenia'' (2009). He is the author of more than two dozens of scholarly articles and publications. Petrosyan has been a member of "Bargavach Hayastan" Party (

Prosperous Armenia Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP; hy, Բարգավաճ Հայաստան կուսակցություն, Bargavatch Hayastan kusaktsut’yun, abbreviated as ԲՀԿ BHK), is a conservative political party in Armenia. It was founded by businessman Gagik ...

) since 2006. In 2007, he was elected (in 2009 reelected) member of the Prosperous Armenia Political Party. Petrosyan was appointed the RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, according to the RA President's №:NH-119-A Decree made on May 12, 2009. In November 2019, Petrosyan signed a petition against

Istanbul Convention The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe against violence against women and domestic v ...

, addressing the fact that Armenia has legislation that supports punishment for the domestic violence and that convention is unnecessary.

References

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