PRESIDENT KOCHARYAN RECEIVED THE AGO GROUP DELEGATION

armradio.am
03.07.2007 14:57

President Robert Kocharyan today received the delegation of the Ago
Group of the Council of Europe Committee of Foreign Ministers headed
by Sweden’s Ambassador to the Council of Europe Per Sjogren. The
delegation comprises the Ambassador of Sweden, Austria, France,
Germany, Russia, Romania and Latvia to the Council of Europe, officials
of the Secretariat of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers.

Emphasizing the importance of the Group’s periodic visits, the parties
agreed that ever since joining the Council of Europe, Armenia has
passed an important way and has registered a great progress with
respect to reforms.

In Robert Kocharyan’s words, the reforms embracing different spheres of
life are implemented with the deep conviction that these are primarily
necessary for us and we have no other way of development. "Armenia is
not rich in natural resources. Instead, our main wealth is the human
factor, which can find its full expression only due to effective,
deep and broad reforms," the President underlined.

The interlocutors turned to the current stage of the negotiation
process on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, the meeting of
the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Saint Petersburg. They
exchanged views on the results of the parliamentary elections and
their international assessment, as well as the preparation of the
presidential elections. Positively assessing the past elections,
members of the Ago Group stressed the importance of further improvement
of the electoral legislation and the electoral processes.