Youth leaders to meet in Vienna

Youth leaders to meet in Vienna

JAKARTA (JP): Youth organization representatives from over 150
countries will gather for the second World Youth Forum in Vienna
from Nov. 25 through Nov. 29.

The United Nations is holding the event to promote the
implementation of the World Program of Action for Youth to the
Year 2000 and Beyond, which the UN General Assembly adopted last
year.

Some 350 people, representing the UN's youth-related entities
and other intergovernmental agencies will take part.

Several youth affairs' ministers will attend the forum's final
session. The office of Indonesia's Minister of Youth Affairs and
Sports could not be contacted for confirmation whether Minister
Hayono Isman will participate in the forum.

Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitszky will open the forum in
the Vienna City Hall but the meeting will take place in the
Vienna International Center.

Discussions will center on a number of priority issues related
to world programs. These are: the relationship between youth and
education and leisure activities, employment, health and
population, poverty, the environment and sustainable development,
human settlements, drug abuse, delinquency, tolerance, racism and
xenophobia, girls and young women, participation and rights, and
communication.

The meeting hopes to improve communication between youth
organizations and the UN system, and start new projects between
the organizations and the UN.

According to the United Nations Information Center in Jakarta,
the UN Secretary-General will report the forum's results to the
General Assembly next year.

The meeting is being co-hosted by the Austrian Federal Youth
Council. (swe)