David Tonoyan

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Dawid Tonojan (2018)

Dawid Edgari Tonojan ( Armenian Դավիթ Էդգարի Տոնոյան; born December 27, 1967 in Öskemen ; Russian Усть-Каменогорск, Ust-Kamenogorsk , Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR ) is an Armenian politician and since May 2018 Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia , since January 2019 in the second Pashinyan Cabinet .

biography

After graduating from school, Tonoyan did his military service in the Transcaucasian Military District of the Soviet Army in Tbilisi in the late 1980s . With the collapse of the Soviet Union, he moved to Yerevan and graduated from the Yerevan State University there in 1991 . In 1997 he graduated from the Military Academy of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation .

Between 1998 and 2007 Tonojan held various positions at the NATO headquarters in Brussels and was Armenia's ambassador to NATO for the last three years. After his removal, he was appointed head of the Armenian Defense Ministry for International Military Cooperation and Defense Policy.

From 2010 to 2017, Tonoyan served as the first deputy defense minister under Sejran Ohanjan and Wigen Sargsyan . In February 2017 he was appointed head of the disaster control ministry.

With the victorious outcome of the so-called Velvet Revolution in Armenia , Nikol Pashinyan , Armenia's new Prime Minister , appointed Tonoyan as the country's defense minister in May 2018.

Others

After taking office as Minister of Defense, Tonojan caused a sensation with populist and contradicting remarks regarding the conflict resolution process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . In a meeting with the Armenian community in New York at the end of March 2019, just a few hours after the first official meeting between Nikol Pashinyan and the Azerbaijani head of state Ilham Aliyev , he emphasized that the formula “land for peace” was replaced by the formula “new war for new ones Areas ”reformulated. Accordingly, in the event of a renewed outbreak of war with Azerbaijan , the Armenian side intends to take offensive action and to capture new Azerbaijani territories except the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is recognized under international law as Azerbaijani territory and was occupied by Armenia in the early 1990s. A week after these statements, Tonoyan tried to calm things down and insisted that Azerbaijan must prepare its army for peace. But a few days later he said in an interview that Armenian stormtroopers were ready to wreak havoc behind the Azerbaijani front in the event of a provocation.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Давид Тоноян назначен министром обороны Армении. In: News.am. May 11, 2018, Retrieved May 10, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Davit Tonoyan. RA Minister of Defense. In: The Government of the Republic of Armenia. Accessed May 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Davit Tonoyan Appointed Armenia's Minister of Emergency Situations. In: Asbarez.com. February 6, 2017, Retrieved May 10, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ НАИРИ ЗАКАРЯН: Давид Тоноян: 10 фактов о министре обороны Армении. In: Armmuseum.ru. May 18, 2018, Retrieved May 10, 2019 (Russian).
  5. ↑ Joshua Kucera: After peace negotiations, threats of war break out between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In: Eurasianet.org. April 1, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Sometimes war, sometimes peace: contradicting explanations of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In: Caucasuswatch.de. April 13, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Tonoyan, Dawid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tonojan, Dawid Edgari (full name); Ust-Kamenogorsk, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian politician and Defense Minister of Armenia
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Öskemen