Mediterranean exchange agreement for the Empowerment of Women

In the presence of some 50 businesswomen from Lebanon, Cyprus and Greece, the minister of state for the economic empowerment of women and youth, Violette Safadi, sponsored on October 12 the signing of an agreement for economic, trade, cultural and touristic exchange between the Lebanese League for Women in Business (LLWB) and the Cypriot and Greek Unions for the Empowerment of Women. On the occasion, the LLWB president, Carmen Zgheib, pointed out that the agreement comes as part of the economic, cultural and touristic empowerment of Lebanese women through the different programs launched by the League. She said LLWB has signed similar treaties with women unions in Switzerland, Spain, Georgia, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan to enhance the role of women in Lebanon. For her part, Safadi underlined efforts by her ministry to support women in business, describing the above agreement as a corner stone in advancing the position of the Lebanese woman locally and globally. (NNA, October 12, 2019)