Raphael Bagoyan
| Raphael Bagoyan | |
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| Labor and Social Affairs Ministers of the Republic Of Armenia | |
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In office 1995–1996 |
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| President | Levon Ter-Petrosyan |
| Preceded by | Ashot Yesayan |
| Succeeded by | Hranush Hakobyan |
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Raphael Andranik Bagoyan March 25, 1948 Baku, Armenia |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Alma mater | Yerevan Polytechnic University |
Raphael Andranik Bagoyan (Armenian: Ռաֆայել Անդրանիկի Բագոյան, born March 25, 1948) is an Armenian Politician.
In 1967, he finished high school and graduated from the Department of Architecture and Construction at Polytechnic Institute in 1973. In the years 1973 to 1990, Raphael worked as an engineer, chief engineer in the Department of Architecture and Planning at Yerevan City Council’s Executive Committee, Deputy Chief Architect of Yerevan city, simultaneously supervising the work of the committee of Yerevan Urban Development Council on Engineering Affairs. In 1990, he was elected Deputy of the RA Supreme Council, then in 1991 headed the Executive Committee of the District Council of Erebuni. In 1993, he was appointed RA State Minister and coordinated the works of territorial administrative bodies, the Ministry of Social Security, State Committee for Refugee Affairs, the Pension Fund, meantime heading the activities of the committees of the RA Government Humanitarian Aid Central Commission, providing liaison between the RA Government and Supreme Council, the RA Government and non-government organizations, also heading the committee works over youth and juvenile issues against drug addiction and trafficking . In 1995–1996, he occupied the post of the RA Minister of Social Security, Employment, Migration and Refugee Affairs. In 1996–1997, Bagoyan headed the Central Committee of the Humanitarian Aid of the RA Government. In 1993–1997, in cooperation with the United Nations Armenian Office, the European Community Representation, US AID, TASIS, FAR and other international organizations, a number of social related laws and projects were developed and launched as well as the Social Services’ Institute was established along with its territorial institutions, the “Paros” system was realized, to be able to organize and implement the process of providing socially vulnerable families with humanitarian aid or other addressed benefits. In October 1997, Raphael Bagoyan was elected the Head of Armenia’s Consumer Companies Union Board; he took up a lot of transformation activities in the system reconstruction, democratization, making the economy meet the time requirements of the market relations, contributing to the development of economy in the country with the union’s help. He has ruled the National Management Board (Armenia being the base country)of the project “Democracy and Development of Consumer Cooperation in the Caucasus Region”, realized by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), Co-op Network Scandinavia Organizations and Olof Palme International Fund since 1999.
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