In the small center of Yerevan, one of the sections of Northern Avenue will be named Europe Square. The relevant decision was adopted at today’s session of the Yerevan Council of Elders.

The members of the Council unanimously voted in favor of the recommendation of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe, Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan.

The opening ceremony of the square will take place on March 26-28, when the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will arrive in Armenia.

Note that in 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Council of Europe. In June of last year, at the meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, it was proposed to name any street, square, park or grove after the Council of Europe in connection with the organization’s jubilee in the Council of Europe member states.