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Arkady Ghoukasyan

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Arkady Arshavirovich Ghoukasyan (Armenian: Արկադի Ղուկասյան) is the President of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. He was elected as the President in 1997 and 2002.

Born in Stepanakert, in the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Republic of the Azerbaijan SSR on June 22, 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 Ghoukasyan was elected to the first Parliament of the Nagorno-Karabagh 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.

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

He has divorced once and remarried.

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