Mkhitar Mnatsakanyan ( hy, Մխիթար Էդվարդի Մնացականյան; born on 16 June 1950 in Sevan, Armenia) is an Armenian politician. On November 23, Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan appointed Mkhitar Mnatsakanyan as the Republic's Labour and Social Affairs Minister.

Education and career

Mnatsakanyan graduated from

Yerevan State Medical University The Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU, hy, Երեվանի Մխիթար Հերացու անվան Պետական Բժշկական Համալսարան), is an Armenian medical university located in Yerevan, Armenia. History On ...

with Master's degree of Medical Sciences in 1972 and in 1984 became a graduate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Management University with Master's in sport. After graduating from the Yerevan State Medical University, Mnatsakanyan served as a

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and inter until 1975 and from that year and until 1977 was a forensic expert at one of the districts of Aparan-Aragats. He also served as an administrative director of the

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's International Post Trauma Rehabilitation Center from 1994 to 1995, and from 1995 to 2001 served as general director of the same center, before becoming president of the

Armenian Red Cross Society The Armenian Red Cross Society ( hy, Հայկական Կարմիր խաչի ընկերությունն) was established in 1920 and it has its headquarters in Yerevan. It supports people affected by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict The Nagorno-K ...

at which post he served until 2007. On May 12, 2007 Mnatsakanyan was elected as deputy of the

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from the

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 ...

party. On December 6, 2007 he was elected Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs. From November 23, 2009 to June 23, 2010, he also served as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia. Mnatskanyan is married, and has two children and four grandchildren. Mnatsakanyan is an Honorable Professor of

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and a member of both the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Sciences and of the

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1950 births Living people Government ministers of Armenia Yerevan State Medical University alumni Labor and Social Affairs ministers of Armenia People from Sevan, Armenia Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences {{Armenia-politician-stub