ArmInfo. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on the appointment of Hasmik Tolmadzhyan as RA Ambassador to France (residence-Paris). ArmInfo was informed about this in the press service of the Armenian leader.
By another decree, Sargsyan appointed Armen Smbatyan as RA Ambassador to Israel (residence-Yerevan).
Armen Smbatyan was born on November 17, 1954 in Yerevan. In 1981 he graduated from the Yerevan State Conservatory's composition faculty, 1982-1985- graduate student of the Yerevan State Conservatory. In 1982-1987 years. - Director General of music programs of the State Television and Radio of Armenia, 1995-2002 - Rector of the Yerevan State Conservatory, 1996 -1998. Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs of Armenia. Since 1997, the chairman of the Armenian Society of Friendship and Cooperation with Foreign Countries. In 2001, by the decree of the President of Armenia he was awarded the Medal of Movses Khorenatsi. In 2002-2010, - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Russia. 2010-2013 - Executive Director of the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS member states.
Hasmik Tolmadzhyan was born on March 10, 1974 in Yerevan. In 1996 she graduated from the Department of International Relations at the Faculty of History of YSU, in 1997 - the University of Pantheon Assas, Paris. Since 2000, she worked as an attache of the Armenian Embassy in France, then as second secretary, from 2008 to 2014 as an assistant to the Armenian Foreign Minister, since 2014 she served as envoy of the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Switzerland.