Mr Alan Gogbashian will not be taking up the role of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Yerevan for operational reasons, the British Embassy in Armenia informs.
Mr Gogbashian will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.
He was to take up his appointment during September 2019.
Mr David Moran has been appointed as Chargé d’Affaires with the rank of Ambassador in the interim, until a new Ambassador is appointed.
David Moran is Head of Global Economic Issues Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). David joined the FCO in 1985 and has previously served as Ambassador to Switzerland, Kazakhstan (2009 to 2012), Uzbekistan (2005 to 2007), and as Ambassador (non-resident) Liechtenstein and the Kyrgyz Republic.
He also served in Nairobi, Moscow, Paris and Tbilisi, and in a range of policy and other roles in London. From 2008 to 2009 he was Deputy Director for Early Warning and Transnational Issues in the Cabinet Office.
