On February 14, 2017 Sona Ayvazyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anticorruption Center participated in Conference “Follow-up to the Recommendations of International Election Observation Missions in Armenia” and made a presentation on “Co-operation between international and domestic election observation missions in Armenia.” She spoke on the challenges that international election observation missions face.

The Conference was organized within the Council of Europe “Long-term electoral assistance to the election related stakeholders of Armenia” project, funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe. The aim of the Conference was to take stock of the situation with regard to the implementation of the recommendations of International Election Observation Missions in Armenia in order to identify a system for their follow-up.

The key speakers at the conference included H.E. Piotr Antoni Świtalski, Ambassador, Head of Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Armenia, Natalia Voutova, Head of Council of Europe Office in Yerevan, Arthur Hovhannisyan, First Deputy Minister of Justice of Armenia, and Tigran Mukuchyan, Chair of Central Electoral Commission.