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Angola: Delegation to Pan-African Youth Congress Leaves
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
26 July 2008
Posted to the web 28 July 2008
Brazzaville
Angolan delegation to the second ordinary Pan-African Youth Congress, to be held from 29 July to 01 August, will leave this Saturday the country for Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
The country's delegation, integrated by the members of the National Youth Council (CNJ), will be led by the minister of Youth and Sports, José Marcos Barrica, who will only travel to Brazzaville next Monday, according to a source.
The mentioned event should have taken place last April in Luanda (Angola), so it was transferred to Congo due to the engagement of the Angolan Government, among other tasks, in the preparations of legislative elections set for next September 05.
The event had suffered a second postponement due to local elections held on 29 June in the neighbouring country.
The delegates to the congress will focus their actions on the boost and reinforcement of youth's capacity in order to be adapted to the new demands and political, social and economic realities of Africa, through the adoption of new statutes for the organisation.
The concert of efforts tending to elaborate an action plan, concentrated by different partners in Africa's development, in a perspective of straight collaboration with the African Union (AU) also makes part of the objectives.
This African juvenile organisation got a new dynamic since October 2003, adopting new statutes and changing denomination, from Pan-African Youth Movement to Pan-African Youth Union (PYU).
PYU held its first congress in November 2003, in Windhoek city, in Namibia.
This African youth organisation aims, among other goals, at materialising African Union ideals and strategies, namely peace, democracy, unity, sustainable development and African integration.
Sensitising, educating, promoting, encouraging and coordinating the African youth activities in the ambit of its participation on the continent social, economic and cultural development, also make part of the organisation objectives.
Pan-Africa Youth Union also aims at contributing to the development, reinforcement and consolidation of African democratic process, holding and materialising the goals and aspirations of the African youth, reinforcing the diversity and consolidation of the international cooperation.
PYU was founded in 2006 during the first Conference of the African youth ministers, having adopted the African Youth Charter in the same year, in the summit of African Union held in July in Gambia.
The African Youth Charter is a document that moves the continent juvenile association movement by constituting a sort of African Government commitment to youth development.
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The African Youth Day is celebrated on 1 November, as 2008 was declared the African Youth Day by the continent's heads of State.
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