Arayik Harutyunyan

Arayik Harutyunyan
Arayik Harutyunyan
Արայիկ Հարությունյան
	Harutyunyan in 2020
4th President of Artsakh
	In office; 21 May 2020 – 1 September 2023
Prime Minister	Grigory Martirosyan ; Artak Beglaryan ; Ruben Vardanyan ; Gurgen Nersisyan ; Samvel Shahramanyan
Preceded by	Bako Sahakyan
Succeeded by	Davit Ishkhanyan (acting); Samvel Shahramanyan
1st State Minister of Artsakh
	In office; 25 September 2017 – 6 June 2018
President	Bako Sahakyan
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Grigory Martirosyan
6th Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
	In office; 14 September 2007 – 25 September 2017
President	Bako Sahakyan
Preceded by	Anushavan Danielyan
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	14 December 1973 (age 50); Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Free Motherland
Spouse	Kristina Harutyunyan
Children	3
Relatives	Artur Harutyunyan
Residence(s)	Yerevan, Armenia
Alma mater	Yerevan State Institute of Economy; Artsakh University
Military service
Allegiance	Republic of Artsakh
Branch/service	Artsakh Defense Army
Years of service	1992–1994
Battles/wars	First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Arayik Vladimiri Harutyunyan (Armenian: Արայիկ Վլադիմիրի Հարությունյան; born 14 December 1973) is an Armenian politician who served as the fourth president of the Republic of Artsakh from May 2020 to September 2023. Under his predecessor Bako Sahakyan, he served as the sixth and last Prime Minister from 2007 until the abolishment of that position in 2017 and as the first State Minister of the Republic of Artsakh from 2017 until his resignation in 2018. Harutyunyan led Artsakh through the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War with Azerbaijan, during which the republic lost most of the territory under its control. He resigned on 1 September 2023 in the midst of the Azerbaijani blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh.^[1]^[2]

On 3 October 2023, he and two other former presidents of Artsakh, Arkadi Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan, together with former president of the National Assembly Davit Ishkhanyan, were detained by the State Security Service of Azerbaijan and brought to Baku.^[3]^[4]

^ Cite error: The named reference :8 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Արցախի նախագահը հրաժարականի դիմումը ներկայացրեց ԱԺ" [The President of Artsakh presented his resignation to the National Assembly]. Azatutyun (in Armenian). 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
^ "Bako Sahakyan, Arkady Gukasyan, David Ishkhanyan were detained and brought to Baku". Azeri Press Agency. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
^ "Azerbaijan detains Arayik Harutyunyan - so-called former "leader" of separatists in Garabagh". Azeri Press Agency. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.

[:8-1] Cite error: The named reference :8 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[:9-2] "Արցախի նախագահը հրաժարականի դիմումը ներկայացրեց ԱԺ" [The President of Artsakh presented his resignation to the National Assembly]. Azatutyun (in Armenian). 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.

[:11-3] "Bako Sahakyan, Arkady Gukasyan, David Ishkhanyan were detained and brought to Baku". Azeri Press Agency. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.

[:12-4] "Azerbaijan detains Arayik Harutyunyan - so-called former "leader" of separatists in Garabagh". Azeri Press Agency. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.

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