Meeting in Victoria on the island of Gozo, Malta, under the Maltese Presidency of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, the Congress Bureau discussed, among others, the situation of local democracy in Armenia, with the elaboration of a new law on local self-government; local self-government reform in Cyprus; the impact on local self-government of the current political polarisation in Georgia; and dismissals of mayors in Türkiye, in the light of the recent visit of a Congress delegation to the country. The Bureau also held a discussion of the situation in Ukraine in the light of recent developments, and of the Congress’s ongoing work to support Ukraine’s decentralisation reforms.