Minister of Foreign Affairs
On November 7, 1991 Raffi Hovannisian was appointed as the first Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia. He served in that position until October 16, 1992, when he was forced to resign, because he and President Levon Ter-Petrosyan took two very different approaches to Armenian national issues.
On March 2, 1992 as the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Hovannisian raised the Armenian tricolor at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
In September 1992 the Los Angeles Times wrote "a recent poll in the Armenian newspaper Epokha found that he enjoyed a mind-boggling 96% approval rating, more than President Ter-Petrosyan."
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