Arkadi Ghukasyan

Arkadi Ghukasyan Արկադի Ղուկասյան

3rd President of Nagorno-Karabakh
In office 8 September 1997 – 7 September 2007
Prime Minister	Leonard Petrosyan Zhirayr Poghosyan Anushavan Danielyan
Preceded by	Leonard Petrosyan
Succeeded by	Bako Sahakyan
Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh
In office 23 July 1993 – 8 September 1997
President	Robert Kocharyan Leonard Petrosyan
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	Naira Melkumian
Personal details
Born	(1957-06-22) 22 June 1957 Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Yerevan State University
Religion	Armenian Apostolic

Arkadi Ghukasyan (Armenian: Արկադի Ղուկասյան, born 22 June 1957) was the third President of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. He was elected as the President on 8 September 1997 and re-elected in 2002, until his term ended on 19 July 2007 and was succeeded by Bako Sahakyan.

Born in Stepanakert, in the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Republic of the Azerbaijan SSR on 22 June 1957, he graduated in 1979 from Yerevan State University with a degree in linguistics. He started his working career as a correspondent for "Soviet Karabagh" newspaper, becoming its Deputy Editor-in-Chief in 1981.

In 1991 Ghukasyan was elected to the first Parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. In September 1992, he was appointed Political Adviser to the Chairman of the State Defense Committee (SDC), and headed the NKR delegations during OSCE negotiations with Azerbaijan.

Ghukasyan has been a member of Nagorno-Karabakh's Security Council since 1993. On 23 July 1993 he became the first Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

He survived an assassination attempt in 2000. Samvel Babayan, whom he had recently sacked as defence minister, who than was convicted of organising the attack and sentenced to 14 years in prison.^[1]

He has divorced once and remarried.

References

↑ BBC NEWS | Europe | Country profiles | Regions and territories: Nagorno-Karabakh

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Preceded by Leonard Petrosyan	President of Nagorno-Karabakh 1997–2007	Succeeded by Bako Sahakyan

Presidents of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Robert Kocharyan Leonard Petrosyan Arkadi Ghukasyan Bako Sahakyan

National Heroes of Artsakh (Armenian: Արցախի ազգային հերոսներ)

Samvel Babayan Vazgen Sargsyan Bekor Ashot Monte Melkonian Seyran Ohanyan Robert Kocharyan Kristapor Ivanyan Manvel Grigoryan Samvel Karapetyan Serzh Sargsyan Petros Ghevondyan Movses Hakobyan Vitaly Balasanyan Yura Poghosyan Vahagn Vardevanyan Zori Balayan Arshavir Gharamyan Arkadi Ghukasyan Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan Pargev Martirosyan Shahen Meghrian Robert Abajyan

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

History

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Political leaders

Military leaders

Documents

Origins:

History of Nagorno-Karabakh

Soviet era:

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

¹ Republic of Armenia's involvement is partial
² Unrecognized state, but a de facto functioning republic

Administrative territorial entities of the NKR:

Districts of Azerbaijan under Armenian control:

Armenia¹:

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic²:

Azerbaijan:

Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh:

Russia:

Boris Yeltsin

Soviet Union:

Mikhail Gorbachev

Turkey:

Turgut Özal

Armenia:

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic:

Azerbaijan:

Russia:

Pavel Grachev

Soviet Union:

Viktor Polyanichko

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria:

Shamil Basayev

Afghanistan:

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Peace process:

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