Valentina Matvienko: IV Eurasian Women's Forum was Brilliant, Notable and Effective

01 October 2024

Valentina Matvienko: IV Eurasian Women's Forum was Brilliant, Notable and Effective

Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairperson of the IPA CIS Council Valentina Matvienko held a meeting of the Organizing Committee of the IV Eurasian Women's Forum and the Council of the Eurasian Women's Forum. The meeting summed up the results of the event held on 18-20 September at the headquarters of the IPA CIS and put forward a number of proposals for the development of the EWF.

Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council Dmitriy Kobitskiy took part in the meeting of the Organizing Committee.

Valentina Matvienko said that this year the EWF broke several records at once – both in terms of the number of participants and the number of events.

Women leaders from 126 countries and representatives of 21 international organizations took part in the work of the Forum, the total audience of the Forum thanks to live broadcasts of its events exceeded 6 million, only the plenary session was watched live by more than 500 thousand people.

As the Chairperson of the Organizing Committee stressed, preparations for the V Eurasian Women's Forum have already begun. At the meeting there was a proposal to expand the site of the congress event, the scale of which is growing every year. According to Valentina Matvienko, the main headquarters of the forum is still the Tavricheskiy Palace.