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Published on October 08, 2009
MP MELIK GASPARYAN DIES IN CAR ACCIDENT
- NA Parliamentarian Melik Gasparyan has died in a car crash. Accident occurred on October 8 in the evening in a Brabus vehicle on Charentsavan-Yerevan highway. Gasparyan was urgently moved to Charentsavan hospital. MP Khachik Manukyan who was in the same car was hospitalized in hard condition, lragir.am reports. In 2001, Melik Gasparyan was subjected to assault; his car was exploded. Melik Gasparyan was born on January 2, 1951 in the village of Mets Marza in the Vardenis region. 1999-2003 – Deputy of the National Assembly (electoral district # 45). He was a member of the Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs of the National Assembly, then a member of the Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs of the National Assembly. Since July of 2001 a member of deputy group of Stability renamed Agrarian Industrial People Unity. On May 12, 2007 he was elected a deputy by the proportional electoral system from the Republican Party of Armenia. Melik Gasparyan was married and had four children.
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