Bako Sahakyan

Bako Sahakyan
Բակո Սահակյան
Sahakyan in 2008
3rd President of Artsakh
In office 7 September 2007 – 21 May 2020
Prime Minister	Anushavan Danielyan Arayik Harutyunyan
Preceded by	Arkadi Ghukasyan
Succeeded by	Arayik Harutyunyan
Interior Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh
In office 1999–2001
President	Arkadi Ghukasyan
Personal details
Born	(1960-08-30) 30 August 1960 (age 63) Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Artsakh University
Military service
Branch/service	Soviet Army Artsakh Defence Army
Years of service	1978-1980 1990–2007
Rank	General
Battles/wars	First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Bako Sahaki Sahakyan^[a] (Armenian: Բակո Սահակի Սահակյան; born 30 August 1960) is an Armenian politician who served as the third president of the de facto-independent Republic of Artsakh from 2007 to 2020. He is the longest-serving president of Artsakh.

He was first elected as president on 19 July 2007. On 19 July 2012, he was re-elected for a second five-year term, receiving approximately two-thirds of the votes.^[1] In 2017, he was re-elected indirectly for a three-year term. Sahakyan replaced Arkadi Ghukasyan, who had held the presidential post for two five-year terms.

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