Meta: Territorial reform, a historic one

13/10/2014 00:00

The Parliament Speaker, Ilir Meta, was part of the 131st Session of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union that is being held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Meta is leading the Albanian Permanent Delegation.

The general debate of this meeting with leaders of Parliamentary Delegations from all the world focused on the gender equality and ending violence against women.

Parliament Speaker Ilir Meta said that the new territorial-administrative reform will help a more efficient treating of the violence against women.

“One of the biggest historic reforms that we passed this year in Parliament was the Territorial and the Administrative one, through which we plan reducing the unnecessary high number of local authorities. Violence against women is one of the concerns that will be treated more effectively with the new configuration, because we expect a better functionality of the local mechanism of coordination”, Meta declared.

Meta mentioned a series of measures that have been undertaken by the Albanian government for preventing violence against women and the old mechanism for the gender equality.

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