The G8 & G20 Youth Summits are organized by Youth Diplomacy under the aegis of the French Presidency of the G20 and the G8. The 2011 Youth Summits will take place from May 29th to June 3rd on ESCP Europe Paris campus.
Since 2006, the G8 & G20 Youth Summits have gathered students and young professionals from all G20 countries to address the most pressing international issues thanks to the leadership of the G8 & G20 Youth Networks, an international network of student organizations committed to promote international dialogue and cultural openness. The first G8 Youth Summit took place in Saint-Petersburg and went to Berlin (G8), Yokohama (G8), Milano (G8) and Paris (G20), Vancouver (G20/G8) and Paris (G20/G8) for 2011. Youth Diplomacy, the French member-association of the G8 & G20 Youth Networks, coordinates the 2011 edition.
This year, the theme of the G8 & G20 Youth Summits is "global transition towards a multilateral and sustainable world". The delegates to the G8 Youth Summit (Foreign Affairs and Defense issues) or the G20 Youth Summit (Governance, Economy, Finance, Environment and Development issues) will endorse a youth perspective on the top issues of their own international agenda. During this intense week of negotiations, they will prepare within ministerial group a Final Communiqué to be delivered to the French Presidency of the G20-G8 as the position of the World's Youth.
The G20 Youth Summit will gather:
Heads of States to address Global aiming at:
- Reaffirming their support to Japan,
- Establishing the balanced governance of cyberspace,
- Adding a Social Dimension to Globalization: Labor and Education,
- Reforming Global Governance.
Finance Ministers to address the questions of:
- Reforming the International Monetary System,
- Reforming the International Monetary Fund.
Economy Ministers with the purposes of:
- Regulating Trade and concluding the Doha Round,
- Reaching sustainable growth and imbalances.
Environment Ministers to:
- Merge Economic, Environmental and Social issues,
- De-carbonise economy while generating growth,
- Preserve the Earth organic resources.
Development Ministers aiming at:
- Tackling Food Security
- Finding new resources for a renewed development model
- Defining the future of humanitarian and disaster assistance and preparedness.
The G8 Youth Summit will include:
Defense Ministers to deal with:
- Tackling nuclear and non-proliferation issues,
- Addressing regional insecurities.
Foreign Affairs Ministers to raise the issues of:
- Getting along with the Arab revolutions,
- Creating an international crisis management.
After the G8 & G20 Youth Summits, the G8 & G20 Youth Networks as a whole will disseminate the Final
Communiqué in all the G20 countries by reaching the Civil Society which encompasses youth organizations, universities, political parties and local MPs, but also their own National
Government. The G8 & G20 Youth Summits are part of the UN International Year of Youth calendar.
Agenda of negociations fot the G8 & G20 Youth Summits 2011
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