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Bella Kocharyan (Armenian: Բելլա Քոչարյան; born 31 January 1954, Stepanakert) is the wife of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and is the former First Lady of Armenia.[1]
Bella Kocharyan | |
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First Lady of Armenia | |
In role 9 April 1998 – 9 April 2008 | |
President | Robert Kocharyan |
Preceded by | Lyudmila Ter-Petrosyan |
Succeeded by | Rita Sargsyan |
Personal details | |
Born | Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union | 31 January 1954
Nationality | Armenian |
Spouse | Robert Kocharyan |
Children | Sedrak, Gayane, Levon |
Kocharyan graduated the Yerevan Medical Institute's Sanitary-Hygienic Medicine Department in 1978. She worked first as a doctor-bacteriologist and then as a doctor-epidemiologist at the sanitary-epidemiological station in Nagorno-Karabakh. She also held the position of the deputy chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station and during her final years there (1991-1993) she headed a department at the station.
Currently, she is the Honorary President of the All-Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry and the Honorary President of the Armenian Branch of Vladimir Spivakov's international benevolent fund Talented Children of Armenia.
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