New Permanent Representative of Armenia Presents Credentials

The new Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations, Paruyr Hovhannisyan, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

(As provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service)

Prior to his appointment, the new Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations, Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan, served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia from November 2021 to April 2025.  Before that, he was Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe from 2016 to 2021.

He previously held several senior positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Director of the European Department (2014–2016).

Earlier in his career, Mr. Hovhannisyan served as Deputy Head of Mission at Armenia’s Mission to the European Union (2005–2010), Head of the International Economic Organizations Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2001–2005), and Second Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Armenia to the United Nations (1998–2001), having started there as a Third Secretary.

Mr. Hovhannisyan holds a degree from the Faculty of International Relations, Yerevan State University (1991–1995) and completed further studies in International Relations and Governance at St. John’s University, New York (1999–2001).

He is a contributor to several publications, including Europe’s Next Avoidable War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Managing Globalization in Selected Countries with Economies in Transition (UN ESCAP, 2003), and is the author of numerous articles on EU-Armenia and UN-Armenia issues.

Mr. Hovhannisyan holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.  He has been awarded the Commander with Plaque, Order of St. Gregory the Great, by the Holy See.  He speaks English, Russian and French.