Africa
May 26, 2022

Avetisyan Andrey Levonovich has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Republic of Tanzania

23.05.2022
By Presidential Decree No. 187 of April 5, 2022, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Republic of Tanzania.
Avetisyan A.L., born in 1960.
Higher education: graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1984. Speaks English, French, Pashto and Dari languages. He has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, awarded in December 2018.
In the MFA system - since 1984. He worked in various positions in the central office of the Ministry and abroad. 2002-2006 — Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the European Communities in Brussels, Belgium. In 2006-2009 — Deputy Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. In 2009-2014— he was the Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan. In 2014-2017, he was the Regional Representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for Afghanistan and neighboring countries. Since September 2017 — Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry.