Shavarsh Kocharyan | |
Office1: | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs |
President1: | Serzh Sargsyan Armen Sarksyan |
Term Start1: | 2008 |
Term End1: | 17 November 2020 |
Primeminister2: | Tigran Sargsyan Hovik Abrahamyan Karen Karapetyan Nikol Pashinyan |
Birth Date: | 3 April 1948 |
Birth Place: | 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]