TIRANA, June 7 /ATA/ / The General Prosecutor, Olsian Çela, and the US Ambassador, Yuri Kim, held a meeting on Monday with the victim coordinators at the prosecutor’s offices in Pogradec.
General Prosecutor Çela told a media briefing after the meeting that the victim coordinators at the prosecutor’s offices function in the entire system of the Albanian Prosecution.
“The meeting focused precisely on further strengthening of this role given the situation of crimes in Albanian society against women, minors, the vulnerable. This meeting served not only in the framework of the assistance that we will continue to give to coordinators, but also to raise awareness that the operators of the justice system, prosecutors, judges should support victims of violence. This assistance will be ongoing, it will be highlight of our work and of course we will have the continuous support of the US Embassy, OPDAT mission, which attach high importance to the role of coordinator,” he said.
While Ambassador Kim said that, “we are here today to meet with the victim coordinators who come from Korça, Elbasan and Pogradec. Coordinators play an important role in justice reform in Albania and so we wanted to see how they were going and what we can do to offer more support.”
“General Prosecutor and I talked about the importance of prosecuting those responsible for electoral crimes and make sure that in all cases the crime victims should get what belongs to them and offenders should be punished,” Kim said.
“We also talked about the importance of safeguarding and maintaining the role of prosecutors,” she added.
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