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Biography
1992-1996
1992-1993 - Ambassador of Armenia to the UK.
1993-1994 - Senior Ambassador of Armenia to Europe and the European Union.
1995-1996 - Ambassador of Armenia to the Kingdom of Belgium, head of the European Catholic community of Armenia, Ambassador of Armenia to the Vatican, Ambassador of Armenia to Luxembourg.
1996-2013
1996-1997 - Prime Minister of Armenia.
1998-2000 - Special and Authorized Ambassador of Armenia to the UK.
2013 (several months) - Member of the Board of Directors of Lydian International, which develops the Amulsar mine.
Since 2013 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Dilijan International School.
2018
On March 2, 2018, he was elected President of the Republic of Armenia.
On April 9, 2018, Armen Sargsyan took office as President of Armenia.
2022: Resignation from the post of President of Armenia and information on Caribbean citizenship
On January 23, 2022, Armen Sargsyan announced his resignation from the post of President of Armenia, which he held for almost four years. He explained his resignation with extremely meager powers of the head of state.
 | We have a paradoxical situation where the president has to be the guarantor of statehood, in fact without any real tools. We live in a unique reality - a reality in which the president cannot influence the issues of war or peace. It cannot veto laws that it considers inappropriate for the state and people. When the president's capabilities are perceived by various political groups not as an advantage for the state, but as a threat, when the president cannot use most of his potential to solve systemic domestic and foreign policy problems, "said Armen Sargsyan (quoted by Kommersant). |  |
Political analyst Beniamin Matevosyan believes that Sargsyan's resignation is a flight from responsibility. According to him, he resigned from his post, not wanting to sign agreements in the field of relations between Armenia and Turkey and Azerbaijan.
According to the Constitution of Armenia, the president is elected by the National Assembly - the parliament for a term of seven years.[1]
Later in January, it became known that the reason for the resignation could be the second passport of the leader of Armenia.
According to an investigation by Hetq journalists, Armen Sargsyan was forced to leave the presidency on January 23, 2022, as he did not refuse a Caribbean passport in 2018.
The presence of a Caribbean passport right now attracted media attention, although everyone knew about the British citizenship of Sargsyan even before his election as president in 2018.
According to the politician, the passport of Saint Kitts and Nevis does not mean anything to him and his citizenship was obtained accidentally as a result of real estate investments, and since 2013, at his request, it has been frozen.
In 2017, when Sargsyan was preparing to become president, he discovered that his Caribbean passport had not been canceled.
According to the Armenian Constitution, Sargsyan did not have the right to become president with spare citizenship in his pocket.
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