ISTANBUL, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- The "World Family Summit +5" concluded here Sunday with adoption of a declaration calling worldwide efforts to achieve gender equality and empower women.

    Deisi Kusztra, president of the World Family Organization (WFO),said at the closing ceremony that "We should not confront with the governments but we should have dialogue with the government in order to make the declaration a reality and achieve our goals."

    Under the theme of Family in Balance, about 400 government officials and academics from 65 countries discussed issues ranging from family and the empowerment of women to gender equality.

    They also discussed how countries, governments, politicians, judicial systems and civil society approach the issue of family.

    "Reducing inequality and empowering the women are very powerful tools to reduce poverty and achieve high levels of well-beings of families in all cultures and societies around the world," said the declaration.

    "Gender inequality is deeply rooted in entrenched attitudes, social institutions and market forces, therefore, political commitments at the highest international and national levels and especially actions at the local level are essential," the declaration noted.

    The summit holds that it is imperative to allocate the resources necessary for gender equality and women's empowerment at international, national, regional and local levels and to guarantee action in the next 10 years on a global scale to achieve gender equality and empower women.

    It also called for efforts to promote a deep transformation in the way societies conceive and organize men's and women's roles, responsibilities and control over resources.

    Since the year of 2004 when the first World Family Summit was accomplished in Sanya, China, this annual event has continued to be the biggest partnership toward making the present and the future world with more peace, security, justice, tolerance, solidarity, prosperity and integrated by mobilizing and promoting the basic cell of society -- family.

    Organized by WFO since 2004, the World Family Summit aims to contribute to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set forth by the United Nations in 2000.