With the theme "The role of youth in promoting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals through digital transformation and innovation", the 9th Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians will focus on discussing and clarifying the issue through 3 thematic discussion sessions including: (1) Digital transformation; (2) Innovation and entrepreneurship; (3) Promoting respect for cultural diversity for sustainable development.
Attending the 9th Global Conference were more than 300 young parliamentarians and delegates from more than 70 IPU member parliaments and representatives of international organizations; Ambassadors, representatives of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations in Vietnam; 124 members of the Vietnam Young National Assembly Delegation; 20 outstanding young people of Vietnam; 20 young delegates of the provincial People's Councils of Vietnam...
On behalf of the Vietnamese National Assembly and the Vietnamese people, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue warmly welcomed the President and Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Chairman of the IPU Young Parliamentarians Forum, delegations of member and observer parliaments, and invited guests attending the 9th Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians held in Hanoi - the city for peace, the thousand-year-old capital of Vietnam.
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue delivers opening speech at the 9th Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians
The National Assembly Chairman said that Vietnam proposed the initiative and was honored and proud to be chosen by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) as the host country to organize the 9th Global Young Parliamentarians' Conference. Following the success of the 132nd IPU General Assembly (2015), the 26th APPF Conference (2018) and the 41st AIPA General Assembly (2020), the Vietnamese National Assembly's hosting of this Global Young Parliamentarians' Conference continues to affirm Vietnam's active, proactive and responsible participation in the IPU; at the same time, it shows Vietnam's priority and concern for youth and current global issues of youth, the National Assembly Chairman stated.
The National Assembly Chairman stated that entering the third decade of the 21st century is a time of many unpredictable events. For the first time, the world has experienced a COVID-19 pandemic of unprecedented scale, with losses far exceeding all predictions. It can be said that the international political, economic and security environment has never faced so many difficulties and challenges at the same time as it does today. The implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda (SDGs) is slowing down, making it difficult to achieve the goals. In addition, non-traditional security issues, especially the negative impacts of climate change, are directly affecting the people, security and development of every country.
However, the National Assembly Chairman also said that we still have the right to be optimistic and hopeful about the future.
While globalization faces difficulties, a series of new economic cooperation and linkage initiatives at both the regional and global levels continue to be accelerated. A world without war and a world without hunger and poverty is the desire and common denominator of global cooperation efforts, the National Assembly Chairman emphasized.
Informing about the theme "The role of youth in promoting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals through digital transformation and innovation" and the thematic discussion sessions on Digital transformation, Innovation and entrepreneurship and Promoting respect for cultural diversity for sustainable development, the National Assembly Chairman suggested that delegates attending the Conference exchange and discuss the following main contents:
Firstly, what needs to be done and how to comply with and ensure international law and the United Nations Charter is a key condition to maintain and foster peace, cooperation and sustainable development.
Second, the role of developed countries, international organizations, the business community and young people in solving global issues such as: sustainable and safe digital transformation; equitable energy transition, adaptation to climate change and strong dissemination of startups and innovation.
Third, to make people and businesses truly the center of all decisions in the development process, both the goal and the driving force and the fundamental resource among all resources, what and how do we need to continue to do in planning, enforcing laws and organizing actions towards people's happiness?
Fourth, promote cultural and human values in sustainable development, promote respect for cultural diversity in the context of the fourth industrial revolution; strengthen cooperation in innovating economic operations, increase labor productivity, create new driving forces for economic growth, and at the same time, help state agencies operate more transparently and effectively on the digitalization roadmap, in order to narrow the development gap and ensure national sovereignty as well as personal privacy in cyberspace.
Fifth, IPU is requested to consider establishing a global network of young parliamentarians on innovation to exchange and learn from each other's experiences.
Emphasizing that youth are the force that shoulder the historic mission and responsibility in the integration and development of each country and the common prosperity of the world, the National Assembly Chairman expressed his belief that each young parliamentarian from member parliaments will promote their intelligence, youth, creativity, responsibility and enthusiasm to actively contribute to the success of the Conference.
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