ADVISER OF RA PRESIDENT POINTS TO NECESSITY TO CREATE INSTITUTION IF
INTERCOMMUNAL GOVERNMENT

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. "Issue of dispersion of local
self-government bodies is sharply set today in Armenia." RA
President’s Adviser, Seyran Avagian, said this at the October
20 seminar organized by the European Integration NGO with the
support of F.Ebert fund, dedicated to European experience in the
sphere of local self-government. In his words, Lithuania has only
64 local self-government bodies, while their number in Armenia is
900, at that only 50 or 100 people live in some communities. This
circumstance, in S.Avagian’s opinion, impedes effective governance
in communities. Solution to the problem of intercommunal government
acquires importance in this respect. He said that determination of
Yerevan status also remains one of the most important problems. The
President’s Adviser expressed the hope that the adopted constitutional
amendments will create new possibilities and resources, which will
make possible to solve both of these problems. Despite of unsolved
problems, in S.Avagian’s words, Armenia’s legislative field regulating
the activity of local self-government sphere has been almost formed.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress