Naira Zohrabyan

Naira Zohrabyan (born 8 May 1965) is an Armenian politician who is a member of the National Assembly of Armenia for the Prosperous Armenia party.[1]

Naira Zohrabyan
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
2008
Personal details
Born (1965-05-08) 8 May 1965
Yerevan, Armenian SSR
Political partyProsperous Armenia

She stood for her party to become the Mayor of Yerevan at the 2018 Yerevan City Council election.[2] She refused to attend a televised debate.[3] She came a very distant second behind Hayk Marutyan.[4]

Biography

Naira studied in Yerevan School 21. In 1987 she graduated from the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute, with a degree in Drama Studies.

From 1989 to 2006 she was a political analyst in Haykakan Zhamanak daily.

Career

In December 2020, Parliament removed Zohrabyan from her position as Chair of the Human Rights Committee over her remarks made earlier in December addressed to Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan.[5][6]

In January 2021, at a meeting held by the Armenian government in the parliament, Pashinyan stated in response to a question from Zohrabyan in regard to the Battle of Shusha, that "there was no option in the whole negotiation process to prevent the Azerbaijani refugees from returning to Shusha," adding that before the Armenian forces seized control of Shusha in 1992, "90% or more of the city's residents were Azerbaijanis." These statements created a resonance in the country, with political figures like Aram Sargsyan, Mikayel Minasyan, Naira Zohrabyan, and Zaruhi Postanjyan, critising Pashinyan. At a briefing, local journalists asked the MPs representing My Step Alliance, which is led by Pashinyan, whether or not they had "any doubts" of Shusha being "an Armenian city," though left the briefing without answering the question. On 3 December, Deputy Head of the Shushi Province, Samvel Harutyunyan, stated that about 4,500 Armenians were displaced from Shusha.

References
  1. "PACE Member File". www.assembly.coe.int. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  2. "Naira Zohrabyan is Prosperous Armenia Party's candidate for Yerevan Mayor". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  3. LLC, Helix Consulting. "Mayoral candidates to participate in Public TV's debate program - aysor.am - Hot news from Armenia". www.aysor.am. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  4. "My Step bloc wins landslide victory in Yerevan City Council election". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  5. "BHK's Naira Zohrabyan removed as Chair of Human Rights Committee of Parliament". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  6. "Naira Zohrabyan from Prosperous Armenia dismissed by parliament as chairperson of human rights committee". ARKA News Agency. 29 December 2020.


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