The UN, whose founders agreed with the adoption of the UN Charter on making the creation of peace an effort of the global community, will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2015. Over the last six decades the world has become more complex and thus the challenges of procuring world peace have changed as well. Topics such as environmental sustainability that now stand at the forefront of the UN’s efforts were not perceived as decisive factors for global prosperity in 1945. To preserve relevance in a changing world, the UN has to continuously rethink its focus.
This year’s topic The UN’s Road Ahead: Realizing Global Human Rights, Peace, and Sustainable Development is especially important to us who want to carry the spirit of the UN into the next generation. At this conference, we are called upon and want to be part of the UN’s road ahead and shape the path that our generation will take. We are in charge of refocusing the UN’s efforts upon those topics that we want to see at the forefront of the UN’s efforts.
Florentine Friedrich, Secretary-General
Elias Lugani, President of the General Assembly
Lena Riecke, Deputy Secretary-General
