Mr. Kento Ozaki in Two-Year Master’s Program of Public Policy (MP2) represented the Japanese youth and joined “North-East Asian Youth Conference: The World We Want” at Korea University. The conference was hosted by the UNDP Seoul Policy Center from January 7-9^th, 2013.

51 young people from diverse backgrounds in Japan, China, Korea and Mongolia, came together to draft a series of demands for policy-makers for a global development framework post-2015.

The Youth Declaration was handed to Kim Sung-hwan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea. Minister Kim was acting in his personal capacity as a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 development agenda.

The Declaration and the News can be seen in the following links.

Declaration:

http://www.un-ngls.org/IMG/pdf/North-East_Asian_Youth_Declaration.pdf
News:

http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/2013/01/north-east-asian-youth-adopt-powerful-post-2015-development-vision-undp/

http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article4208