Raffi Hovannisian

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Raffi Hovannisian (born November 20^{[citation needed]}, 1959 in Fresno, California, United States) is an Armenian politician and former Foreign Minister of Armenia. He is the leader of the pro-Western^{[citation needed]} opposition Heritage party. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he is married and has five children.^[1]

Raffi Hovannisian has spearheaded the campaign to get Armenia to recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. On August 28, 2007, he introduced to the parliament a bill on a formal recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.^[2]

He is the son of Richard Hovannisian, emeritus professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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