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Ghana Wins Secretary-General’s Special Award |
| Five hundred delegates from 35 countries, including 13 junior high school children from Ghana recently convened at the United Nations headquaters in New York to discuss global warming, kidnapping and access to primary education. |
Ghana was presented with the coveted Secretary-General's special award given to the country with the best delegation.
The country also earned honourable mentions for distinguishing itself at the UNICEF committee.
Ghana's delegation was led by the Executive Director of Lifelink Friendship Schools, Ernest Gyimah-Danquah and also included Bernice Adomah Yeboah, programmes director and Emmanuel J. K. Arthur, communication director.
The group later toured the United States Senate and the Brumidi Corridors.
The U.S. State Department hosted the conference, an annual gathering of middle and high school students from different countries to mock the work of the United Nations and its diplomats.
The US Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte, challenged the youth to demand what he called tough answers from policy makers to enable them carry out country-based advocacy with confidence and passion.
Opening a model United Nations Conference at the State Department in Washington, Ambassador Negroponte said as future leaders, the current generation of youth needed to be properly prepared for the task of attaining global peace and socio-economic development.
Ambassador Negroponte, who is also a former U.S. envoy to Iraq and permanent representative to the united nations intimated an intention by the u.s state department to expand the global classrooms project to allow the involvement of more young people around the world in the coming years.
The Managing Director of Merrill Lynch, Steven Berry, global sponsors of the event, said inculcating the virtues of global diplomacy among young persons was crucial, if present progress was to be sustained. |
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