Shavarsh Kocharyan

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Shavarsh Kocharyan
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 2008 – 17 November 2020
President	Serzh Sargsyan Armen Sarksyan
Prime Minister	Tigran Sargsyan Hovik Abrahamyan Karen Karapetyan Nikol Pashinyan
Personal details
Born	(1948-04-03) April 3, 1948 (age 76) Yerevan, Armenia

Shavarsh Kocharyan (Armenian: Շավարշ Քոչարյան, born 3 April 1948, Yerevan, Armenia)^[1] is an Armenian diplomat, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

On November 10, 2020, during the political crisis caused by the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement he submitted his resignation, being accepted on November 17.^[2]

In the early hours of April 13, 2004, Shavarsh Kocharyan as an opposition MP was taken into police custody during a violent crackdown on opposition protests.^[3]

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