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Bella Kocharyan

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Bella Kocharyan
Bella Kocharyan in 2005
First Lady of Armenia
In role
9 April 1998 – 9 April 2008
PresidentRobert Kocharyan
Preceded byLyudmila Ter-Petrosyan
Succeeded byRita Sargsyan
Personal details
Born (1954-01-31) 31 January 1954 (age 70)
Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union
NationalityArmenian
SpouseRobert Kocharyan
ChildrenSedrak, Gayane, Levon

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]

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.

References

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  1. ^ "First Lady Bella Kocharyan and Mikhail Shvidkoy attend the "Armenia Sacra" exhibition". Public Radio of Armenia. 10 March 2007. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2011.