TIRANA, October 5 /ATA/ – Minister of State for Relations with Parliament Erjona Ismaili held a meeting today with a delegation from the US House of Representatives.
The talked focused on modernizing the legislative process and strengthening Parliamentary institutions, including the use of technology and Artificial Intelligence to enhance transparency and efficiency. Another topic of the talks were also the efforts to accelerating Albania’s path toward the European Union through continued reforms and the strengthening of democratic institutions.
Ismaili emphasized the importance of exchanging experiences with American partners to strengthen institutional capacities and establish more modern Parliamentary processes.
“The partnership with the US remains a vital source of support for strengthening and modernizing democratic institutions,” the minister stated following the meeting.
The U.S. delegation was led by Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan of Florida, Chairman of the House Democracy Partnership—a bipartisan House of Representatives body that collaborates with the parliaments of partner nations on Parliamentary transparency, government oversight, access to information, Parliamentary administrative capacity and the modernization of legislative processes.
Under Buchanan’s leadership, this body has collaborated with hundreds of parliamentarians from 47 countries around the world. /p.s./
