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

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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