YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. "Issue of dispersion of local self-government bodies is sharply set today in Armenia." RA President's Adviser, Seyran Avagian, said this at the October 20 seminar organized by the European Integration NGO with the support of F.Ebert fund, dedicated to European experience in the sphere of local self-government. In his words, Lithuania has only 64 local self-government bodies, while their number in Armenia is 900, at that only 50 or 100 people live in some communities. This circumstance, in S.Avagian's opinion, impedes effective governance in communities. Solution to the problem of intercommunal government acquires importance in this respect. He said that determination of Yerevan status also remains one of the most important problems. The President's Adviser expressed the hope that the adopted constitutional amendments will create new possibilities and resources, which will make possible to solve both of these problems. Despite of unsolved problems, in S.Avagian's words, Armenia's legislative field regulating the activity of local self-government sphere has been almost formed.

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