Ruben Rubinyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Ռուբինյան; born 8 March 1990) is an Armenian politician, Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia and former head of its Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.[1] He was appointed a special envoy from Armenia for normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations in December 2021, meeting his Turkish counterpart Serdar Kılıç on January 14, 2022. [2]

Ruben Rubinyan
Ռուբեն Ռուբինյան
Vice-president of National Assembly of Armenia
Assumed office
2 August 2021
Head of Standing Committee on Foreign Relations National Assembly (Armenia)
Member of the National Assembly
Special envoy for normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations
Personal details
Born (1990-03-08) 8 March 1990 (age 34)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyCivil Contract
Alma materYerevan State University
OccupationPolitician

Personal life

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Ruben Rubinyan is the son of Karapet Rubinyan, the former Vice-President of the National Assembly of Armenia (1995-1998) and former member of the Pan-Armenian National Movement party executive committee (1991-1998).[3]

After graduating from Faculty of International Relations of Yerevan State University in 2010, he did a Master's degree at University College London (UCL) in Politics and Security in 2011 and Master's degree in European Studies at Jagiellonian University in Poland in 2012.

References

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  1. ^ "National Assembly of Armenia | Official Web Site | parliament.am". www.parliament.am. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  2. ^ "Armenian, Turkish envoys meet for first talks on normalizing relations | Eurasianet". eurasianet.org. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  3. ^ "Ermenistan bu sefer 'ciddi': Türkiye ile normalleşme için özel temsilci atandı". Mepa News (in Turkish). 2021-12-19. Retrieved 2022-01-19.