ArmInfo.French leader Emmanuel Macron signed a decree appointing Jonathan Lacote as France's ambassador to Armenia.
Lacote will replace Jean-Francois Charpentier, who held this position in 2014.
Earlier, the 45-year-old Lacote was the adviser to the French ambassador to the UK, he also worked in the French Foreign Ministry, in the bureau for Europe, at the French embassies in Montenegro and Germany. Lacote speaks English, German, Russian, Spanish, Estonian, Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian.