page_title: Serzh Sargsyan
section_title: Foreign policy
hierarchical_section_title: Serzh Sargsyan / Presidency (2008–2018) / Foreign policy
caption_attribution_description: English: Secretary Clinton meets with Armenian President en:Serzh Sargsyan
context_page_description: Serzh Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia and was the third President of Armenia, from 2008 to 2018. He won the February 2008 presidential election with the backing of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, a party in which he serves as chairman, and took office in April 2008. On 18 February 2013, he was re-elected as president and served the entire term.
  Despite pledging in 2014 not to become Prime Minister again while supporting an amendment of the constitution in 2015 that would allow it, Sargsyan was again elected Prime Minister of Armenia in April 2018, in what opposition figures described as a "power grab". Six days after taking office, Sargsyan resigned after large-scale protests. Sargsyan is currently the leader of the Republican Party, which from 1995 to 2018 held a majority in Armenia's National Assembly.
caption: Sargsyan and US State Secretary Clinton in Yerevan, 4 June 2012
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