Delegates pay courtesy call on Madam Speaker

Delegates from the Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region (AWMR) today Friday, 27 June 1997 paid a courtesy call on Madam Speaker, Notary Myriam Spiteri Debono, at the House of Representatives in Valletta. The delegates are holding a five-day conference in Malta on justice, peace and equality in the Mediterranean under the general theme "Education for Peace".

Madam Speaker welcomed the delegates and stated that the peoples of the Mediterranean can contribute as much as Governments and Parliaments in attaining peace in the region. Notary Spiteri Debono also spoke about Malta's efforts in establishing a Parliamentary Forum within the Euro-Med Process, which would strive towards the attainment of democratisation and the bettering of human living in the Mediterranean.

The delegates came from Malta, France, Italy, Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Palestine, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia and Israel.