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“Honourable representatives of the local self-government, I congratulate you on Local Self-Government Day!

Including this day in the public holiday calendar means to highlight the place and role of the local self-government in the country’s economic and public-political life. It is also the evaluation of the local self-government bodies’ activities as an important state and public institute.

The system of the local self-government is one of the first touchstones and pillars of our statehood and Constitution. It has been already about 20 years it is the authorities’ voice next to the citizen, and the community and citizen’s voice next to the authorities. The communities, which are our symbolic small motherlands, complete our one great motherland, the Republic of Armenia , and the local authorities have an honourable mission of providing the development of the small motherlands as a pledge of the collective strength of the great Motherland.

The local power is the closest to the people, and its main capital is the people’s trust. The latter is a powerful, and at the same time, very sensitive and gentle instrument, through which only we can reach successes. Through the very local self-government bodies the citizens exercise their right to participate in the solution of the problems defining the quality of everyday life and the voice of protecting community’s interests. The more mutually reliable are resident-local self-government body relations in the community, the more visible are the achievements, the bigger is the country’s potential, the greater is the trust towards the state authorities in general.

I am sure that the joint efforts directed to the enhancement of the efficiency of the local self-government will give an opportunity to successfully overcome the difficulties, have more convenient and prosperous communities and more developed and more welfare country.

I wish all of you health, welfare and successes in your work for the benefit of every community and for the benefit of our united country.”