Karen Mirzoyan ( hy, Կարեն Միրզոյան) is a diplomat of

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and of the unrecognized

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. From September 2012 until September 2017 he served as the Republic's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Career

Foreign Minister

On June 6, 2013, Mirzoyan was interviewed by ''

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'', and on July 24, 2014 Mirzoyan was interviewed by the ''European Times''. In September 2014, Mirzoyan led a diplomatic mission to the

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. Mirzoyan met with Bakartxo Tejeria Otermin—speaker of the Basque Parliament. He also toured

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. The Basque Parliament and the Nagorno-Karabakh's legislature passed reciprocal motions recognizing one another's right to national autonomy. 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. In September 2017, Karen Mirzoyan was succeeded as Foreign Minister of the Artsakh Republic by Masis Mayilyan.

Ambassador-at-large

On June 28, 2019, he was appointed Ambassador-at-Large by

Nikol Pashinyan Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan ( hy, Նիկոլ Վովայի Փաշինյան, ; born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician serving as the prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in ...

. On November 16, 2020, during the political crisis created by the

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, he resigned from his post.Special envoy Karen Mirzoyan files resignation application

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, 16 November 2020

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Official Biography by the government
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Career

Foreign Minister

Ambassador-at-large

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