Millennial UN conference: Education termed best investment

ISLAMABAD:

The Millennial Model United Nations (MMUN) conference of the Roots College International (RCI) kicked off on Friday at their Millennium Campus.

The conference offers students the opportunity to learn how the UN conducts its affairs. Spain Ambassador Javier Carbajosa, while presiding over the conference, said education was the best investment. “Youth is the strongest element in setting the image and status of any country.”

The event, organised on the pattern of the United Nations, is an amalgamation of different cultures attended by delegates who travel nationwide to witness a memorable experience. “The purpose of the conference is to instil leadership qualities, debate techniques and personal alchemy among the students,” said Daniyal, one of the delegates. The students go through rigorous sessions of debate to promote international cooperation to achieve development for all. “It took three weeks for the preparation of this event,” said Ali, another student.

Roots Millennium Schools Principal Ayesha Ansar said that the event aimed to foster teamwork among the students.

The declaration of the event said that the culture of the Model United Nations Conferences has spread at a rapid pace throughout the world and today MUN is being taught as a course in some parts of the world. We at the Millennium Campus understand that in the near future the focus of intellectuals of the world had shifted from specialised knowledge to a more holistic development of the individual. It said that the students serve as a valuable source of reference in translating global commitments into national policies.

MMUN ‘13 Committee Secretary General Osama Bin Shafqat and Director General Tania Imran, during their address, said that the Roots Millennium schools are all about opportunities, excitement, exhilaration and excellence. Once again millennial events take the lead and initiated an important opportunity to develop the horizon of the students, who in the next proceeding years would harness the reins of the government.

“We are committed to solving the problems of the youth of Pakistan and the millennial events provide us with the highest quality support,” said the secretary general.

The students remain committed to reaffirming their resolve to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to promote social progress, better standards of life and universal freedoms.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 28^th, 2013.