ArmInfo.A Civil funeral for Armenian Ambassador to Great Britain and Northern Ireland Arman Kirakosyan will be held at 6:00 pm on July 12 in the Church of Saint Sargis in Nor-Norq.
The last farewell to the ambassador will take place from 12:00 -2: 00 on July 13 at the House of Chamber Music after Komitas.
Arman Kirakosyan will be buried in the pantheon of the Yerevan city cemetery.
To recall, on July 6, at the age of 63, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Armenia to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Arman Kirakosyan suddenly passed away.
Arman Kirakosyan was born in 1956, in 1977 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Geography of the Armenian Pedagogical Institute named after Abovyan. He joined the Foreign Ministry of Armenia in 1991, in 1994 he had the diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary.
In 1994-1999, he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Greece, since March 1999 he has been doyen in Athens, Greece, and also in Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
In 1999-2005, he worked as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to the USA. From April 2005 to October 2011, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia. Since 2011, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Austria.
On November 28, 2018, he was recalled from this post, as well as the post of head of the Armenian mission to the OSCE and from the post of the permanent representative of Armenia in the UN Office in Vienna and other international organizations.
From November 28, 2018 - appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to the UK.