TIRANA, March 31/ATA/ A delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) visited the Authority for Information on the Documents of the former State Security, immediately after the end of the seminar on “Access to historical documents” held today in Tirana, in the venues of the Parliament of Albania.
Genitiana Sula, the head of the Authority, acquainted the PACE representatives with the work done since establishment of the institution.
The guests visited the archive of the Security documents and were informed about the work processes, the way of storage, the typology of the files, etc.
Head of PACE delegation Louise Barton expressed his support for the work of the Authority, especially in terms of the declassification of documents, as well as the significance of the transparency of public authorities in a pluralistic, democratic society.
During the morning, PACE delegation in cooperation with the Committee for Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the Assembly of Albania, held, in Tirana, the seminar on “Access to historical documents”.
Regarding the recent legal changes, Dr. Gentiana Sula said that, “With the approval of the changes in the law 45/2022, the Assembly has created the necessary legal basis for a greater impetus to the opening and access of historical documents”.
In the 2018-2022 timeframe, the Authority has declassified 317,051 documents and with the entry into force of the legal changes, it has taken measures to declassify 610 archival units or about 13,300 documents by March. /gj.m/p.s./
