YEREVAN. – Armenian capital city Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan received Mayor Stefan Wolf of Weimar city in Germany, Yerevan Municipality’s Information and Public Relations Department informed.   

Margaryan noted that comprehensive steps are being taken along the lines of Yerevan’s development programs. “In parallel with the implementation of new programs, there is [also] a huge task of maintaining Yerevan’s urban development and architectural characteristics,” the Mayor stressed.   

Underscoring the need to carry out mutually beneficial bilateral projects with Weimar and several other German cities, Taron Margaryan noted that there are prospects for cooperation in terms of experience exchange in local governance and in urban economy.  

In his turn, Mayor Stefan Wolf expressed a conviction that the ties between Yerevan and Weimar will become closer and more practical.

“I already am pleasantly astonished at Yerevan’s alluring exterior and development pace. All preconditions exist toward implementing bilateral projects and experience exchange,” Weimar’s mayor noted. 

Stefan Wolf also informed that commemoration events are scheduled to be held in Weimar in 2015, in connection with 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. 

At the end of the meeting, Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan reaffirmed the Municipality’s readiness to collaborate with German cities and, also, to assist in implementing investments projects in Armenia’s capital city.