According to Aravot Daily’s sources, representative of the ruling party and My Step deputy from the previous National Assembly convocation, Viktor Yengibaryan, will be appointed the ambassador to Germany. Aravot Daily was unable to speak to Yengibaryan about this. Our calls remained unanswered.
On the initiative of the former deputy Viktor Yengibaryan, the National Assembly changed the law, and the monthly 50,000 AMD for the expenses of the deputies’ pockets increased five times to 250,000 AMD. Plus huge salaries and bonuses. The salary of the majority of the population of Armenia is less than 250,000 AMD per month. This government figure, however, is not in this National Assembly. The velvet is not ungrateful: Viktor Yengibaryan, who became a good man for the team at the expense of the state, will not be left without gratitude.
At least two inconsistent biographies of Viktor Yengibaryan have been published in open sources. Somewhere, it is mentioned that he was once from Gagik Tsarukyan’s Prosperous Armenia Party, but it is not mentioned in the source. In another source, it is mentioned that he was a member of the executive council of the Union of Armenian Academics, but not in the other.
Viktor Yengibaryan, who is likely to be appointed to the post of ambassador, has no diplomatic education, and according to biographers, he is everything except a diplomat – a sociologist, a minefield mapper, a manager of international corporations, a public manager. Viktor Yengibaryan received his latest qualification after graduating from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the United States. The school has two directions: law and diplomacy. Viktor graduated from the law school.
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But Lilit Makunts also had no diplomatic education, experience, or rank, and former Ambassador Armen Sarkissian, who is now the President of Armenia, immediately awarded her the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, forgetting that there is still a long way to go before receiving the rank of Ambassador: Attaché, Second Secretary, Second Secretary, First Secretary, Adviser, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. But Lilit Makunts immediately became an ambassador, just as Argishti Kyaramyan immediately became a colonel. Viktor Yengibaryan will immediately become an ambassador. This is not the whole tragedy yet.
According to his biography, Viktor Yengibaryan studied at the German universities of Bochum and Hagen, and worked at the German International Cooperation Company. The velvet leaders of Armenia, it seems, think that Viktor Yengibaryan’s skills will be quite sufficient in Germany, where the Turkish lobby is quite strong, and in that sense, there is a lot to do diplomatically.
Nelly Grigoryan
