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The first Global Youth Festival in the Republic of Uzbekistan was an excellent example of uniting representatives of young generations from all over the world. Youth from the partner countries of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly joins together more naturally, more easily and more simply.
More than 700 young people from 92 countries participated in the festival, which had opened in Samarkand. The events of the festival were held simultaneously in five cities - Samarkand, Bukhara, Jizzakh, Khorezm and Tashkent - a summit of unlimited opportunities, an educational forum, a chess tournament, a scientific conference, a fashion show, a chess tournament and a gastro-festival - in Uzbekistan, which has the right to call itself the gastronomic centre of the whole of Central Asia, there is no way for guests without dastarkhan.
"Before travelling to Uzbekistan, I made a list of things I wanted to do here. The first item was pilaf," Ekaterina Emets, Programme Director of the Ecosystem All-Russian Youth Centre, shared her impressions.
About a hundred young people participated in the international Summit of Unlimited Opportunities, telling how their countries are doing in terms of educating people regardless of their health, cultural, ethnic, intellectual or other characteristics. Trends in contemporary politics were discussed at the Young Diplomats Summit held as part of the festival. The guys also played an intellectual game "What? Where? When?". On the territory of the Silk Road Samarkand tourist complex, young people from 30 countries of the Islamic world planted a garden with one ornamental tree from each country.
As part of the Global Youth Festival events, 35 chess players, almost half of them foreigners, met at the Tashkent Palace of Youth Creativity for a tournament among young chess players from CIS countries. Events also included national costume shows at the Fine Arts Gallery of Uzbekistan. 200 young designers showed their works, and these were Central Asian collections made of wool, silk and cotton, combining traditional elements of Uzbek clothing and modern trends in the fashion world.
The experience and international success of the first Global Youth Festival was highly appreciated by the leadership of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The event will be repeated again and again. Of course, the formula for all events involving new generations depends on the filling of programmes even more than on the composition of the participants. This was the case at the almost week-long “Asia Children” international sports games in Yakutsk in June, which Marina Volkova, Head of the Department of Happiness of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly, participated in. The same formula in early March this year gathered more than 20 thousand boys and girls from 193 countries in Sochi in the Sirius cluster at the All-Russian International Youth Festival under the motto "Let's start the future together!". Young people in general are rarely bored together, they are a very powerful integration engine in themselves.