Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo

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Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo (born 1962) is an Iraqi Assyrian politician who was appointed Minister for Finance and the Economy in the cabinet of Iraqi Kurdistan on 2006-05-07. He was born in Diyana, Arbil Governorate, and is part of the Nochiya Tribe. He was a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly. In the previous cabinet, Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo was the Minister for Finance and the Economy from 1999 to 2006, and Deputy Prime Minister from 2004 to 2006 in the Arbil & Dohuk administration.

Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo is an Assyrian whose family origins are from the district of Shamezdin in the Hakkari Province. He is greatly known within the Assyrian community throughout all of Iraqi Kurdistan for helping rebuild Churches, roads, schools and Assyrian villages.^{[citation needed]} He is also the one who helped fund the new Assyrian channel (Ishtar TV) which is broadcasted in three languages (Arabic, Kurdish and Assyrian).

In August 2006, Sarkis was awarded the "Knight Commander of the order of Saint Gregory the Great" by Pope Benedict XVI as a way to honor his work with the Assyrian Christian community in Iraq. ^[1] Aghajan was awarded the title, which is one of the highest and most widely recognized pontifical orders, for his contribution to the Assyrian community and his work for Christians in Iraq. ^[2]