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Varos Simonyan

Varos Simonyan

Biography

He was born on March 5, 1981 in Yerevan (Republic of Armenia).

Varos Simonyan graduated from the State Engineering University of Armenia, specialty "Economics and Management", and from the University of Bradford (Great Britain).

He started his working career in 1998 in the commercial sector, where he was holding various positions.

From 2002 to 2008, he was a lecturer at the State Engineering University of Armenia.

From 2002 to 2005, he was Chief Specialist at the Section of Natural Resource Use Economy, Mining Industry Directorate of the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development of the Republic of Armenia.

From 2005 to 2007, he served as Head of the EU Cooperation Section, EU and WTO Cooperation Directorate of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia.

From 2007 to 2008, he was Head of the EU and WTO Cooperation Directorate of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia.

From 2008 to 2011, he was Head of the EU Cooperation and International Economic Cooperation Directorate of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia.

From 2011 to 2015, he was appointed Trade Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the European Union.

From 2015 to 2019, he was Commercial Attaché of the Republic of Armenia to the European Union.

From August 2019 to November 2021, he served as Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Armenia; he also co-chaired a number of intergovernmental commissions.

Since November 23, 2021 he was appointed a Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Internal Markets, Informatization, Information & Communication Technologies ​of the Eurasian Economic Commission pursuant to the relevant Decision by the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.

He is married and has a daughter.

14 Dec 2016 The interview of the Minister on the technical regulation of the EEC Valery Koreshkov with BELTA news agency on establishment of the common market of medicines in the Eurasian Economic Union Medicines is the first group of specific goods, with which the EAEU countries started to work closely by the beginning of the functioning of the common market. Using this experience, the EAEU will form other common markets - for finances, energy, oil and gas, and so on. The BELTA journalist discussed with the EEC Board Member - Minister in charge of technical regulation Valery Koreshkov, what stages are yet to be covered and how the common market of medicines will work.​
18 Nov 2016 Interview of the Minister in charge of Internal Markets, Information Support, Information and Communication Technologies of the EEC Karine Minasyan to Tass News Agency: "The risk of innovations should be encouraged in the EAEU” The Eurasian Economic Union became operational in 2015 and now comprises five countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. While Eurasian integration primarily focused on trade cooperation at its inception 20 years ago, since then the agenda has gradually expanded. Rapid information technology development provided the Union with new challenges. It soon became clear there was a need to regulate online trade, collaborate on legislation in the field of the Internet of Things, develop e-government communication systems, and create a venture funding market and jointly develop innovations in general. Therefore, this year a new area of activity was established in the Eurasian Economic Commission, the regulatory body of the EAEU. One of its main objectives is to build a common digital space and develop digital technologies. Karine Minasyan, Member of the Board - Minister in charge of Internal Markets, Information Support, Information and Communication Technologies of the EEC gave an interview to TASS New Agency on what is being done in this area at the Eurasian Week Forum and Expo in the run-up to the first anniversary of the establishment of the new direction of integration cooperation.​
Minister in charge of energy and infrastructure of the Eurasian Economic Commission Adamkul Zhunusov answered questions of 09 Nov 2016 Minister in charge of energy and infrastructure of the Eurasian Economic Commission Adamkul Zhunusov answered questions of "RUSARMINFO" and shared his view on the level of integration of Armenia in the common energy market of the Eurasian Union ​​How do you estimate the level of integration of Armenia in the common energy market of he EAEU? And what are the objective possibilities of development? ​
29 Sep 2016 Interview of Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Internal Markets, Information Support, Information and Communication Technologies, Karine Minasyan, to the newspaper, Voice of Armenia: In the context of a lack of integration The functioning of internal markets of the EAEU countries without barriers, exemptions and restrictions has become a highly discussed topic, recently especially given the fact that the heads of the Member States of the Union increasingly criticise the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) for a lack of proactive action in this direction. In the interview with Karine Minasyan, Member of the Board - Minister of the EEC responsible for the functioning of the internal market without barriers, exceptions and limitations, we decided to find out what The EEC has done in terms of removing such obstacles.
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