ARMENIAN PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE IN COUNCIL OF EUROPE MET WITH THE NEWLY APPOINTED SECRETARY GENERAL

ARMENPRESS
Oct 16, 2009

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Permanent Representative
in the Council of Europe, Ambassador Zohrab Mnatsakanyan met October
15 with the organization’s newly appointed Secretary General Torbyor
Yagland. At the beginning of the meeting Ambassador Mnatsakanyan
conveyed to the secretary general Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan’s
congratulatory message on the appointment.

Armenian Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Media and Information Department
told Armenpress that the interlocutors discussed the agenda issues and
problems of the organization, the necessity of implementing reforms
and the methods. An importance has been attached to the improvement
of the organization’s recourses and to the increase of the efficiency
of the implemented programs. The necessity of the cooperation with
European institutions, mutual complementation of the activity within
the frameworks of the mandates, as well as of avoiding from duplication
has been noted as well.

Z. Mnatsakanyan pointed out the rich expert potential of the
organization, which efficiently contributes to the development
of the democratic systems in Armenia. Both sides underscored the
primary importance of the member-states in the activity of the
organization. They referred to the latest regional events as well. The
secretary general welcomed the progress registered in Armenian-Turkish
relations once more and highly assessed the steps carried out toward
that direction.