YEREVAN, DECEMBER 6, ARMENPRESS. The Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Karine Kazinian died in the United States of America in the early morning on December 6. As reports "Armenpress" Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan announced this during the session of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

Before beginning the session the Government honored Karine Kazinian’s memory by a moment of silence.

Karine Kazinian (Kroyan) was an Armenian diplomat, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Karine Kazinian was born on 8 January, 1955, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. She graduated from Yerevan State University, Philology Department, in 1977. Karine Kazinian worked in the USSR Embassy in Mozambique 1977-1981, 1983-1988 - the USSR Embassy in Portugal. From 1992-1994 Kazinian worked as a lecturer of English at Law and Philology Departments, Yerevan State University. 1997 she was appointed Chargé d’Affaires of the Republic of Armenia in Romania. She was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Romania in 1999-2001, 2001-2009 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Federal Republic of Germany. Karine Kazinian worked as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia in 2009-2011. She graduated from Harvard Kennedy Government School in June, 2010. Karine Kazinian was appointed the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on September 8, 2011.

Diplomatic rank: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Awards: Armenian Medal of Mkhitar Gosh, Romanian Grand Cross Order for Merit

Languages: English, Russian, German, Romanian, Portuguese

Marital Status: Widowed, with a daughter and a son