Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan has appointed Vahram Chuguryan and Saro Khodaverdi as commissioners of diaspora affairs in foreign countries.

They will serve as advisers on a non-paid basis.

Khodaverdi served as an adviser to former Armenian Minister of the Diaspora Hranush Hakopyan.

Armenia-native Vahram Chugaryan served as director of the news and journalism section of Radio and Television Slovakia from 2018 to 2022.  He’s the author of 100 Years of Silence: The Armenian Genocide. He also served as the spokesman for Slovakia’s national gas transmission network EUSTREAM.