Levon Ter-Petrossian

president of Armenia

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Levon Ter-Petrosyan served as the first president of Armenia, holding office from 1991 to 1998. He was reelected in 1996. His presidency was marked by efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which led to a falling out with Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan in 1998. This disagreement resulted in Ter-Petrosyan's resignation and Kocharyan's subsequent election as president. The current president of Armenia is Vahagn Kachaturyan.12

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…1997 the embattled Armenian president, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, appointed as prime minister the president of the self-declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Robert Kocharyan, in the hopes that Kocharyan’s popularity among Armenians would shore up support for his presidency. But the ploy backfired as Kocharyan publicly opposed Ter-Petrosyan’s conciliatory stance toward Azerbaijan over…
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…1997 the embattled Armenian president, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, appointed as prime minister the president of the self-declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Robert Kocharyan, in the hopes that Kocharyan’s popularity among Armenians would shore up support for his presidency. But the ploy backfired as Kocharyan publicly opposed Ter-Petrosyan’s conciliatory stance toward Azerbaijan over…
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