Armenian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan today hosted Andreas Kiefer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities and its Vice President John Warmisham.

Today, an international conference of capital cities of the Council of Europe member states will be held in Yerevan, Armenia. The conference is co-organized by the Armenian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, in close co-operation with the municipality of Yerevan.

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The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe is a pan-European political assembly, the 636 members of which hold elective office (they may be regional or municipal councilors, mayors or presidents of regional authorities) representing over 200,000 authorities in 47 European states.

Opened for signature on 15 October 1985, the European Charter of Local Self-Government entered into force in 1988. On 10 January 2013 the Charter has been ratified by 46 out of the 47 Member States of the Council of Europe. 

The Charter requires compliance with a minimum number of principles that form a European foundation of local democracy. The Congress makes sure that these principles are observed. 

Armenia ratified the Charter in 2002.

Photo: Deputy PM Gevorgyan (left) greets John Warmisham