RA Minister of Defense Vagharshak Harutyunyan submitted his resignation. Iravaban.net was informed from the President’s Office that they have already received the offer to relieve Harutyunyan from office.

A proposal to dismiss Arshak Karapetyan, First Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces was received as well.

It should be reminded that he was appointed Minister of Defense by the 20 November decree of President Armen Sarkissian.

Iravaban.net presents his biography:

Date and Place of Birth

April 28, 1956, Akhalkalaki, Georgia

Education
1978 – Graduated from Higher Military College after S. Kirov

1991 – Military Academy after Marshal Grechko (Leningrad)

1998 – Military Academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (Moscow)

Work Experience

1978-1990, Service in the USSR Armed Forces

1991-1992, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, simultaneously – First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Republic of Armenia

1992-1994, Deputy Chief of the CIS Joint Armed Forces General Command Staff

1994-1999, Deputy Chief of Staff for Coordination of Military Cooperation between CIS Member States, Representative of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia

1999-2000 – Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia

Since August 19, 2020 – Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
As of November 20, 2020, Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Other Information

1994 – He was awarded the military rank of Major General

1996 – Awarded the military rank of Lieutenant General

He has been awarded the Medal “For Services to the Motherland”

He has received medals, orders and other high state awards of Armenia, NKR, Russia, USSR, Belarus, Bulgaria, Tajikistan and a number of other countries.

Awarded with a nominal weapon by Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Vazgen Sargsyan and Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Pavel Grachev

He participated in the Artsakh liberation war.