ARMENIA: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN

UNCLAS YEREVAN 001765 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPT FOR EUR/CARC, S/WE FOR MEHRA AND LANE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KWMN PHUM PREL SUBJECT: ARMENIA: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN REF: A) STATE 202341 B) STATE 178055 C) YEREVAN 1509 This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ¶1. (SBU) Per ref A request, the following are the titles and contact information for the women we identified in ref C: - Culture and Youth Affairs Minister Hasmik Poghosyan, tel. (374-10) 529-349, 566-065; address: Government Building #3, Yerevan 0010, Republic of Armenia. - Labor and Social Affairs Deputy Minister Tamara Gevorgyan, (374-10) 526-831; address: Government Building #3, Yerevan 0010, Republic of Armenia. - Lala Ghazaryan, head of the Department of Family, Women and Children's Issues at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs; tel. (374-10) 565-321, 526-831; address: Government Building #3, Yerevan 0010, Republic of Armenia. - Hranush Kharatyan, head of the Department for National Minorities and Religious Affairs; tel. (374-10) 581-663; address: Government Building #1, Yerevan 0010, Republic of Armenia. - Hranush Hakobyan, Republican member of parliament; tel. (374-10) 524-722, 588-331; address: 19 Marshal Baghramian, Yerevan 375019, Republic of Armenia. - Lilit Shakaryan of the MFA's International Organizations Department (point of contact for women's issues at the MFA); tel. (374-10) 544-041 x223; address: Government Building #2, Yerevan 0010, Republic of Armenia. ¶2. (U) The point of contact for women's issues at Embassy Yerevan is Political Officer Masha Herbst (e-mail: herbstm@state.gov; tel. (374-10) 494-302; IVG 996-4302). GODFREY