Ukraine to host OSCE Children and Youth Summit
Baku, July 21 (AZERTAC). Ukraine, currently holding the OSCE Chairmanship, initiated a children and youth forum, which will take place at Crimean-based international children's resort "Artek" July 20 to August 1 this year.
The Azerbaijani youth will also attend the Children and Youth Summit.
The official opening and closing ceremony of the summit will be attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, OSCE-Chairman-in-Office Leonid Kozhara and honourable representatives of the OSCE and other international guests.
It is planned that the event will also see representatives of 43 OSCE member countries, eight partner countries and 13 countries that are perennial participants in the International Children's Festival "Change the World for the Better." The national delegations will be presented in groups of five children aged between 12 and 16 years old.
The purpose of the summit is to introduce children and young people with the activities of the OSCE in politico-military, economic and human dimensions, as well as with the existing tools to overcome the challenges and threats to security and stability in the OSCE area of responsibility.
The event is organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Ministry of Social Policy with the assistance of the All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation of Hope and Good.
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