YEREVAN. – Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) MP and former FM Vartan Oskanian, who heads the PAP list for the capital city Yerevan Council election that will be conducted on May 5, on Thursday met with Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland, who is in Yerevan on an official visit. 

They discussed Armenia’s recent presidential election and the subsequent developments, the forthcoming Yerevan municipal voting, the current political situation in the country and the likely structural changes, Armenia’s cooperation with European organizations, and the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, Oskanian’s office informs.   

Armenia’s former FM noted with delight that the period, when Armenia will assume the chairmanship of the CoE Ministers’ Committee, coincides with the important political processes unrolling in the country, and this, as per Oskanian, could have a positive impact on democracy in Armenia.

He also noted that the absence of political counterbalances is the main obstacle standing in the way of the development of democracy in Armenia, and expressed a hope that the forthcoming Yerevan Council election will enable to start this mechanism within the political system of the country.