PRESS RELEASE

PRESIDENT OF WORLD ROMA ORGANIZATION AND PIECE AMBASSADOR

INTERNATIONAL ROMA CONFERENCE BUKUREST(ROMANIA)

(DECEMBER 17-19 2018)

During the conference in Bukurest (Romania) that took place on 17th and 18th December over twenty states sent their representatives. One of the main topics was rising extremism whose victims are often Roma people and other minorities groups.

Day one of the conference:

Representative of the International Roma organizations and other roma organizations had discussions and mapped the problems their community is facing. They also tried to find tools to solve the problems and made suggestions that would be discussed further on the meeting in the House of Parliament of Republic of Romania.

Day two of the conference:

Because of very democratic and supportive attitude of state of Romania toward the Roma people, community representatives had an opportunity to discuss in the House of Parliament problem of raising extremism in Europe. They had constructive discussions about the problems that Roma community is facing and what tools should be used for prevention of it.

During the conference many suggestions and ideas were taken into consideration. In short period of time organization team will publish the results and conclusions of the conference. One of the main goals is to include more Roma representatives into parliament in their countries and also European parliament.

Press team