Suren Khachatryan | |
Office1: | Governor of Syunik Province |
President1: | Serzh Sargsyan |
Primeminister1: | Hovik Abrahamyan |
Term Start1: | September 2014 |
Term End1: | October 2016 |
Predecessor1: | Vahe M. Hakobyan |
Successor1: | Vahe A. Hakobyan |
Term Start2: | 2004 |
Term End2: | June 6, 2013 |
Predecessor2: | Edik Barseghyan |
Successor2: | Vahe M. Hakobyan |
Office3: | Deputy to the Armenian National Assembly |
Term Start3: | 1999 |
Term End3: | 2004 |
Office4: | Mayor of Goris |
Term Start4: | 1996 |
Term End4: | 1999 |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1956 |
Birth Place: | Goris, Syunik Province |
Nationality: | Armenian |
Spouse: | Married |
Children: | 4 |
Surik Sergeyi Khachatryan (hy|Սուրիկ Սերգեյի Խաչատրյան; born August 1, 1956), known as Liska,[1] is an Armenian politician who formerly served as the governor of the Syunik Province of Armenia, a position from which he resigned in 2013, presumably because of a shooting incident near his mansion in Goris.[2] Prior to that, from 1996 to 1999, he was the mayor of Goris. A member of Armenia's Republican Party, Khachatryan was also a deputy to the Armenian National Assembly from 1999 to 2004. He has a wife and four children.[3]
On June 2, 2013, Suren Khachatryan's son shot dead Avetik Budaghyan, the brother of Artak Budaghyan, a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic military unit commander in front of Suren Khachatryan's house in Goris.[4] [5] Khachatryan was forced to resign on June 6, 2013 due to public pressure.[6] He was reappointed as the governor of Syunik Province in September 2014 by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan.
He was president of the Syunik provincial council of the Yerkrapah Volunteer Union.[7]