Delegates from around 70 countries have confirmed participation at the World Conference on Youth scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka.
The 2014 World Conference on Youth is scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka from the 6th to the 10 of next month. Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said participants from 13 countries including Afghanistan, China, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, Fiji, Maldives, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Serbia and Saudi Arabia confirmed participation at ministerial level at the conference.
The conference is expected to bring together 1,500 participants, half of them young people, aged from 18 to 29 years while 350 of them will come from marginalized backgrounds, making the conference one of the most well represented youth events at global level.
The Minister also said member states of the United Nations have been invited to participate at ministerial level.
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