UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Hundreds of young people committed to supporting development goals at the end of the three-day U.N. Global Youth Leadership Summit.
The summit involved discussions, debate, concerts and seminars at U.N. World Headquarters in New York focusing on how best to attain the Millennium Development Goals, especially using sport and culture to encourage youth to get more involved in the global battle for development.
"Sport can be a powerful tool for efforts to achieve the MDGs and I hope all of you will seek ways to take advantage of that potential," said Adolf Ogi, special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on sport for development and peace in his closing statement.
The MDGs are a series of targets set by the Millennium Summit, seeking to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, maternal and infant mortality, lack of access to education and other social ills by 2015.
The youth delegates comprised a young woman and young man from nearly every one of the 192 U.N. member states. They now return home to be spokespersons for the goals.
