In 1993, Artak Apitonian joined the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia serving in the Middle East, Europe and at the international organizations, and holding top-managerial positions during his diplomatic carrier. From 1995 to 1997, Apitonian served at the
Embassy of Armenia in Cairo, Egypt, overseeing, inter alia, the Embassy transfer to the historic villa in Zamalek. In 1998, he was advisor to the
Permanent Mission of Armenia to the United Nations in New York. From 1999 to 2002 he was the
deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of Armenia in Beirut, Lebanon. From 2002, Apitonian headed the
United Nations division at the Armenian Foreign Ministry, before being appointed the Deputy Permanent Representative of Armenia to the
United Nations Office at Geneva in 2005. From 2009 to 2013, Apitonian was the Director for Foreign Relations at the Office of the
President of Armenia. From November 2013 he served as the first resident Ambassador of Armenia to Sweden, and from 2014 to Finland as well, effectively establishing a regional embassy in Stockholm. In 2018, Apitonian has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, overseeing the
multilateral diplomacy,
arms control,
human rights as well as
public and media relations. He resigned from the post of Deputy Minister in June 2021, citing disagreement and irreconcilable differences with the policies of
Nikol Pashinyan government. From February 2022 to March 2024, Apitonian was the CEO of The FUTURE ARMENIAN Development Foundation. In this position, he organized first pan-Armenian
citizen's assembly – the Convention of the Future Armenian in March 10–12, 2023. Since 2022, Apitonian is a visiting lecturer at
Yerevan State University (Post-Graduate Department) in
global studies and
sustainable development. == Diplomatic rank ==