THE HON. JESMOND MUGLIETT ATTENDS THE 9TH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR SPORT

THE HON. JESMOND MUGLIETT ATTENDS THE 9^TH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR SPORT

The Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education, the Hon. Jesmond Mugliett is presently attending the 9^th Conference of the European Ministers responsible for Sport.

The Conference is being organised by the Council of Europe between the 29^th and 31^st May 2000, in Bratislava in the Slovak Republic and the theme is "A Clean And Healthy Sport for the 3^rdMillennium". Over 35 European Ministers responsible for Sport are attending.

Among the themes that are being discussed during this conference are: Combating doping; Sport and Social cohesion; Sexual harassment and Abuse in Sport, especially in the case of women and children; Sport and its relationship to the environment.

Following this Conference the Parliamentary Secretary will be proceeding to Groningen in the Netherlands, where, apart from attending the Special Olympics European Games, he will be meeting executives of the Special Olympics from Head Office, Washington and Brussels to discuss the possibility of Malta hosting the Special Olympic Games in the future.