NEWLY ELECTED YEREVAN MAYOR: CAPITAL CITY’S MASTERS ARE NOT MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF ELDERS, BUT YEREVAN RESIDENT
Noyan Tapan
June 11, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 11, NOYAN TAPAN. The sitting of the newly elected Yerevan
Council of Elders was held on June 11, during which the swearing-in
ceremony of newly elected Mayor Gagik Beglarian took place. Assuming
his post, he swore to keep the Constitution, the laws for the sake
of Yerevan residents’ well-being. RA President Serzh Sargsyan was
present at the ceremony.
According to the law On Yerevan, for the first time Council of
Elders, headed by the Mayor, formed through elections assumed Yerevan
government. G. Beglarian in his speech assured that the Mayor and
Council of Elders will carry out all promises and programs they
mentioned during the election campaign. He promised that his and
elders’ meetings with Yerevan residents will be permanent: contact with
the voters will help the town authorities to assess the efficiency of
their work and capital city’s government. "We wish the atmosphere in
public life to change, citizen-town authorities relations’ quality to
rise, more perfect culture of living in the capital city to be formed,"
G. Beglarian said. He emphasized that capital city’s masters are not
the Mayor and Council of Elders, but Yerevan resident. And Mayor’s
goal is to make Yerevan "modern, clean, green, and beautiful."