TIRANA, March 1 /ATA/ – I. Vata/ Parliament Speaker, Lindita Nikolla, received on Tuesday in a meeting Monica Merino, the new resident representative of UNDP in Tirana.
Parliament Speaker, Nikolla thanked Merino for UNDP cooperation with the Assembly, Government and institutions of Albania in advancing the 2030 Agenda, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change and promoting gender equality and economic, political and social participation of women in the development of the country as well as cooperation with regional and local authorities through various social and economic projects to improve the quality of life of the population.
“The Assembly is grateful to UNDP and other UN agencies in Albania for their cooperation in drafting and adopting legislation on child protection, gender-based violence, asylum seekers, etc. “The fight against gender-based violence, domestic violence, and children is one of my top priorities as Parliament Speaker and as part of these issues we will expand cooperation with UNDP,” said Nikolla.
For her part, Monica Merino thanked Nikolla for highlighting the Assembly’s cooperation with UNDP and other UN agencies and underlined that this cooperation will be deepened to achieve the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, climate change, gender equality and the fight against domestic violence. /j.p/sm/
