Armenian PM receives CoE official
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received on Tuesday Herwig van Staa, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, who arrived in Yerevan to attend the international conference "Participatory Democracy at Local Level," to be held on Wednesday and within the framework of Armenia's newly-assumed chairmanship at the CoE Committee of Ministers.
"We have assumed the chairmanship, and we should do our best to record successful and effective developments during these six months of chairmanship," Tigran Sargsyan said in his welcoming remarks.
In his turn, Herwig van Staa thanked the Armenian official for the warm reception and hosting the international conference in Yerevan. He lauded Armenia's steps towards developing the local self-government system in the country.
The interlocutors exchanged views on the development of local democracy and discussed measures for raising the effectiveness of local self-governance. In this context, the Armenian PM underscored the need to study the positive track-record of the CoE member countries, and stressed that local democracy is a priority of Armenia's chairmanship at the CoE Committee of Ministers and a number of events are scheduled within the scope.
At the end of the meeting, the guests shared his impressions after the visit to Mother See of Holy Etchmikadzin and Armenian Genocide Museum, the Government's press service reports.
