PM Hasina opens Dhaka’s ‘OIC Youth Capital’ celebration Monday
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina can inaugurate the two-day celebration of ‘Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020’ on Monday with 100 local and 150 youths from across the globe while 10 of them will get the ‘Bangabandhu Global Youth Award’.
Minister of Culture and Sports of Qatar might give the OIC Youth Capital Key from Doha to Dhaka at the virtual inaugural ceremony even though OIC secretary general might join along with several ministers and signatories of a amounts of OIC member states, reviews BSS.
The celebration includes two-working day youth summit titled “Resilient Youth Leadership Summit” under the theme - ‘Parity and Prosperity: For a Resilient Future’.
“This event is a great possibility to project the positive branding of Bangladesh highlighting the brilliant works of the youths and share knowledge among the stakeholders,” foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told at a virtual international media briefing here today.
Status Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russel and YICF President Taha Ayhan also spoke in the briefing moderated by Algerian youth policy expert Amel Ouchenam.
Mentioning that the event coincides with the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Dr Momen stated Dhaka will introduce Bangabandhu Global Youth Award designed for 10 youths who located an outstanding contribution in several fields to enlighten the global youths about the legacy and contribution of Bangabandhu.
“The Bangladesh of today - that was formerly conceived by Bangabandhu - believes that prosperity can't be and even, ought not be, measured by the amount of skyscrapers. We believe that the richer our textures of life happen to be - the richer we will be - as persons and as nations,” he said.
More than 1,200 youths from 74 countries had requested the participation found in the youth summit, which the organizing committee has short-listed 250 participants, including 100 from Bangladesh and 150 others from OIC Member States and beyond, while proper gender balance has been maintained reflecting Bangladesh’s commitment found in women empowerment.
These short-listed participants will hook up with the expert panelists from home and abroad to go over how youth can be involved to combat COVID19 in the 1st session in Monday and the justice and accountability problem of the persecuted Rohingya population in the next session on Tuesday.
Noting that the occurrence of the COVID19 has underlying rationale because of this year’s ‘Resilience designed for Parity and Prosperity’, the foreign minister said, “Irrespective of language, ethnicity, race, religion, or perhaps for example, even national boundaries and sovereignty, this deadly menace offers caused all of us to think about ‘humanity’ in the core of every of faith systems.”
About the virtual tour “Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazaar” to be organized in collaboration with US High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and University of Cambridge on Tuesday for the participants, Momen said the tour would sensitize the global youth community about the justice and accountability issues over the persecuted Rohingya people.
At the end of the summit, an ‘outcome document’ will be adopted for further youth action on the volunteerism and humanitarian ground.
The complete Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020 program has been promoted online and social mass media through a platform named Youth for Global Bangladesh (Y4GBD) which can be an initiative of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in close association with Ministry of Youth and Sports.
The long term Y4GBD platform will be utilized as an instrument for engaging youth for organization, ideas & innovation, research& development together with public diplomacy aiming at communicating influential youth leaders around the world to garner support for government’s strategic objectives at international platforms, said the foreign minister.
Speaking on the problem, the status minister for youth explained the selection of Dhaka when the Youth Capital can play a significant role to reflect a confident brand image of Bangladesh globally, especially among the youth.
On December 25 last, the Istanbul based Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF), an entity affiliated to the business of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), announced Dhaka as the “OIC Youth Capital 2020” marking a substantial reputation for the dynamic and determined leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s authorities in the youth sector.
Bangladesh contested for the coveted title since Might last year and finally was shortlisted - along with Kazakhstan and Tunisia - by ICYF before clinching the title in December 25.
