Reelected
President of the RA National Academy of Sciences, academician Radik Martirosyan has been reelected president during a general assembly devoted to the election today. The assembly included 66 full-fledged members of the National Academy of Sciences (academicians), 62 correspondents and 41 authorized representatives of NAS organizations. The assembly had brought together 151 members, reports the Information-Analysis Center of the National Academy of Sciences.
NAS academician Lenser Aghalovyan had also been nominated, but Radik Martirosyan received the majority of votes with 102 to 34. Overall, there were 7 against both candidates and 8 ballots were recognized as invalid.
The NAS president-elect Radik Martirosyan had nominated NAS incumbent vice-president Yuri Shukuryan as NAS vice-president and NAS correspondent-member Hrant Matevosyan as the Academy's academician-secretary. Yuri Shukuryan and Hrant Matevosyan were elected with 118 and 115 votes respectively.
On June 29, the elections for academician-secretary of the divisions will be held in all five divisions of the National Academy of Sciences.
On June 30, the general assembly of the RA National Academy of Sciences will vote for the academician-secretaries elected in those divisions, as well as other members of the presidency of the RA National Academy of Sciences.
