Moldovan premier participates in meeting of national committee on combating trafficking of human beings

Chisinau, 25 July /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today opened a meeting of the national committee on combating the trafficking of human beings. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and European Integration Minister Andrei Galbur, in his capacity of head of the Committee, the Foreign and European Integration Ministry’s (MAEIE) information and media communication service has reported.  

The PM drew attention of the Committee members to a Report by the United Department of State on the situation in terms of trafficking of human beings, the 2017 issue, in which Moldova was positioned at the level of Tier 2 Watch List. Filip highlighted the urgency that all national institutions should get involved to quickly advance in fighting this scourge.    

The participants in the meeting approved a string of measures, worked out by the Standing Secretariat of MAEIE’s anti-trafficking committee, in close cooperation with the competent national institutions, development partners and civil society. The measures are meant to improve the situation in this sector in a short term (till late 2017).   

The committee members also discussed a draft national strategy on the prevention and combating of the trafficking of human beings for 2018-2023 and an action plan for 2018-2020; the strategy and the plan are regarded as documents of policies with a medium duration of action. 

Traditionally, attending the event were representatives of the civil society, who made proposals for the agenda of the anti-trafficking community on the immediately next period.