Background
Arzoumanian, Alexander was born on December 24, 1959 in Yerevan, Armenia.
Arzoumanian, Alexander was born on December 24, 1959 in Yerevan, Armenia.
Degree in Physics and Mathematics, Loumumba University of Moscow, 1982. Degree in Mathematics, State University of Yerevan, 1985.
He served as minister of foreign affairs from 1996 until his resignation, with President Levon Ter-Petrossian, in 1998. Since then, he has been involved in local politics, as chairman of the Armenian National Movement (2000–2002), and in the private sector, as chief advisor to the president of Armagrobank (1998–2000). The TARC was established in July 2001 to promote mutual understanding and good will between the people of Armenia and Turkey, and to encourage improved relations between the countries.
In July 2002, the TARC commissioned a groundbreaking legal analysis regarding the applicability of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to the Armenian Genocide from the New York based International Center for Transitional Justice.
Arzoumanian holds a Bachelor of Science from People's Friendship University in Moscow’s and an Mississippi in mathematics from Yerevan State University. He was working as a theoretical mathematician when he became involved in the independence movement in the late 1980s.
He ran the information center of the Armenian national movement, and published the Movement’s newspaper and other samizdat literature until Armenia became independent in 1991.
At present, he works with local Non-governmental organizations in the area of human rights, democracy, and regional cooperation, and is a founding member of the Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission, an independent group of prominent Armenians and Turks.
Married; 1 child.