11th March
2014
State representatives briefed at Sri Lankan High
Commission in New Delhi on World Conference on Youth 2014 to be held in Sri
Lanka
Representatives of over 100 diplomatic missions
in New Delhi met on 11th March 2014 at a briefing on the World
Conference on Youth which will be held in Sri Lanka this year in the month of
May 2014. The conference will come to Asia for the first time and focus will be
on young peoples’ role in the creation and implementation of the post-2015
development agenda.
The Government of Sri Lanka will convene the
conference to bring together over 1500 people including 2 young people from
each country in the world, 350 international youth leaders, Ministers
responsible for youth and the UN system.
Young people, including representatives from youth-led organizations and
networks, Ministers and International Organizations are expected to jointly
agree an outcome.
High
Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam, Sri Lanka’s envoy to India welcomed
representatives to the briefing and introduced the speakers from around the
world.
Sri Lankan
Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Dullas Alahapperuma in his remarks to the diplomatic corps requested
to convey information about the conference to respective capitals and urge
participation from each country at the World Conference on ‘Youth’ and further requested
the Ministers in-charge of youth affairs in respective countries to attend the
World Conference on Youth in Colombo“
Vice President
of the European Youth Forum and Co-Chair of the International Youth Task Force of
the conference Lloyd Russell-Moyle welcomed people and said “this conference
will bring together people for the first time in history to engage in an intergenerational
dialogue about the role of young people in creating and implementation the
future development agenda”.
Global Advisor
on the World Conference on Youth Ravi Karkara emphasized the “need for
effective follow up and building of existing momentum to put youth in the
center of the global development agenda” in his closing remarks to the
gathering.
The other
members of the delegation included Director General of National Youth Services
in Sri Lanka Lalith Piyum Perera and International Youth Task Force Member &
UN Liaison for the International Coordination Meeting of Youth Organizations Christopher
Dekki.
For further comment contact,
WORLD CONFERENCE ON YOUTH SECRETARIAT
Ministry of
Youth Affairs and Skills Development
“Nipunatha Piyasa”, No.354/2, Elvitigala Mawatha,
Colombo 05. Sri Lanka
“Nipunatha Piyasa”, No.354/2, Elvitigala Mawatha,
Colombo 05. Sri Lanka
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