3月26日，在亚洲青年领袖论坛中国—阿联酋青年领袖对话会上，阿联酋青年理事会成员拉蒂法·萨迪发表了主旨演讲。
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尊敬的各位嘉宾：
下午好！我叫拉蒂法·萨迪，来自阿联酋青年理事会。非常荣幸能出席亚洲青年领袖论坛，感谢给我这个机会与大家分享我的体验和想法。
我想带大家回到1971年，当时我们的领导人创建了一个联邦政府，由七个酋长国组成，这一联合取得了显著的成就。阿联酋已故总统谢赫·哈利法·本·扎耶德·阿勒纳哈扬殿下说：“一个国家最大的投资在于培养一代又一代受过教育和知识渊博的青年。” 阿联酋政府将青年群体作为重中之重，并认为年轻一代是我们的未来。
提及阿联酋近期的一些成就，我们即将在今年举办第28届联合国气候变化大会，总统谢赫·穆罕默德·本·扎耶德·阿勒纳哈扬殿下任命莎玛·阿勒玛滋鲁伊阁下作为青年气候大使，负责大会的青年议程。政府认为，青年是应对气候变化挑战的解决方案。阿联酋领导人的愿景是使阿联酋青年成为模范，并在各个领域引领世界，这一愿景的核心是通过倾听和实施年轻人的想法和意见为青年提供教育手段和参与方式。阿联酋政府在七个酋长国都建立了青年理事会，覆盖了企业、政府机构、国际组织。
青年理事会一直是青年参与解决当地问题并为未来做出决定和建议的绝佳平台。我们这一赋能青年的模式始于最上层的阿联酋青年理事会，每个酋长国都是理事会成员；下一层是七个地方青年理事会，每个酋长国有一个；再往下是企业和政府机构层面，共有150多个青年理事会。这种模式确保涵盖了多个平台的所有青年。到目前为止，理事会覆盖了2000多名成员，共同努力促进阿联酋青年群体的发展。
阿联酋和中国青年都具有创新精神，充满想法和抱负。提供青年理事会等平台将有助于应对挑战，使青年能够表达意见。对我们来说，相互学习很重要，这会带来创新和繁荣。我们都应该携起手来，迈向更加现代化和创造性的未来。阿中携手合作的愿景是为青年的成长和发展创造一个有利的环境，促进培养下一代领导者，提高他们的社交技能水平、学术修养和自信心。青年将能够支持政府迈向可持续发展，预见未来以应对全球挑战，并确保社区的幸福和满意。
在本次论坛上，我们有机会分享阿联酋的其中一个青年赋能模式，即青年理事会。我很荣幸能和各位青年领袖共聚一堂，分享阿联酋赋能青年的模式以及讨论如何和中国共同扩大这些努力。谢谢。
Lateefa Al Saedi shares the UAE model of youth empowerment
On 26 March, Lateefa Al Saedi, member of Youth Councils of the UAE, delivered a keynote speech at the China and UAE Dialogue between the Youth Leaders of the Asia Youth Leaders Forum. Following is the full text of the speech.
Esteemed guests,
Good afternoon. I’m Lateefa Al Saedi from the Youth Councils of the United Arab Emirates. I am delighted to attend and be part of the Asia Youth Leaders Forum, and I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about my thoughts and experiences.
I would take you a step back to 1971, when our rulers established a federal government made up of seven emirates. This union has resulted in remarkable achievements. The late president of the United Arab Emirates His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan said, “A country’s greatest investment lies in building generations of educated and knowledgeable youth.” The government of the United Arab Emirates prioritizes the youth sector as one of its first priorities and believes that the younger generation are the future.
Speaking on the latest achievement of the UAE, the UAE government is hosting COP28 this year, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE, assigned Her Excellency Shamma Al Mazrui as a Youth Climate Champion to lead the youth agenda during COP28. The government believes that the youth are the solutions to tackling climate change challenges. The visions of the United Arab Emirates leaders is enabling the Emirati youth to become a model and leading the world in all fields. The vision revolves around providing the educational means and engagement through listening to the youth’s ideas and thoughts and then implementing them. In the UAE, the government has established youth councils across seven emirates: multiple corporate entities and federal entities, as well as global groups.
Youth Councils have been a great platform for the youth to get mor involved in solving local problems and making decisions and recommendations for the future. Our model of empowering youth in the UAE starts at the top with the establishment of the UAE Youth Council, which considers a member of each emirate in the UAE. Cascading down, there are seven local youth councils formed across the seven emirates. It then branches off to corporate entities and federal entities, where there are more than 150 youth councils. This model ensures the inclusiveness of all youth across multiple platforms, and up to now it covers more than 2,000 youth council members, working together towards the growth of the youth sector within the UAE.
Emirati and Chinese youth are both innovative and full of ideas and aspirations. Providing a platform such as youth councils would be useful in tackling challenges and enabling the youth to express their opinions. It is important for us to learn from each other, and that would lead to innovation and prosperity. We should all join hands and move forward into a more modernized and creative future. The vision behind the UAE and China joining hands is to develop an enabling environment for the youth’s growth and development. This would lead to nurturing the next generation’s leaders and increasing their level of social skills, academic accomplishments, and self-efficacy. The youth would be able to support the government’s march towards sustainable development and foreseeing the future to meet global challenges, as well as ensuring the happiness and satisfaction of the community.
In the forum, we were able to share one of UAE’s models of empowering youth: youth councils. It has been an honor to be among such accomplished individuals and to be able to share the UAE model of enabling youth and how we can expand on such efforts with China. Thank you.
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