On 16 June 2021 the Centre for Policy Studies held the closing event of the project Advancing Reforms in Armenia with Visegrad Four’s Know-how organised with support from the International Visegrad Fund.
Two policy papers were presented and discussed. First, CPS expert Victoria Melkonyan presented the paper Development of information society and effective e-governance: foundation for the development of participatory democracy in Armenia. Afterwards, chairman of the Association of Healthcare Economists Samvel Kharazyan and former deputy minister of healthcare Avet Grigoryan presented the paper Armenia’s healthcare system: from the past to the future. Discussions with participation of experts and public officials followed each of the presentations.
CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan summed up the programme outcomes, mentioning that besides the two presented papers, three policy papers had already been published within the programme framework: Eastern Partnership: Visegrad Four countries’ policies authored by himself; Armenian army’s status and command: Constitutional regulations in the context of international practice by constitutional law expert Artashes Khalatyan; and Armenia’s sustainable energy prospects by executive director of the Energy Saving Foundation, Astghine Pasoyan. He expressed his gratitude to the paper authors, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak experts whose webinar presentations contributed to the programme success, as well as to the CPS staff and participants.
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The event was concluded with a reception and informal discussion with the Deputy Head of Mission of the Slovak Embassy Pavol Popjak and the First Counsellor of the Polish Embassy Krzysztof Bartczak.
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