MEDA Youth Parliament

  The head representatives of the local chapters of the southern Mediterranean countries, who participated in the 1^st Euro Mediterranean Youth Parliament (EMYP) organized by the German Foreign Office in Berlin in close collaboration with the Goethe Institute and the Heinz Schwarzkopf Foundation met from September 8^th to 10^th in Beirut, Lebanon. The countries present included representatives from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and the host country Lebanon. The head representatives decided to launch the first Meda Youth Parliament (MYP). The announcement was made during a press conference headed by Dean of the Lebanese Press Syndicate on September 10th, 2007 in Beirut. MYP will be a non governmental, non partisan and non profit platform for young people by fostering non formal education and cultural exchanges. This idea came during the mentioned above 1^st session of the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament, in Berlin (Germany) held from the 26^th of May to the 03^rd of June 2007. The role model for the EMYP has been the European Youth Parliament (EYP), which is a European school project that brings together 200 young people from all over Europe together with its International Sessions. The participants from the southern Mediterranean countries decided to form their own youth-platform for South-South dialogue between its young population.  During the two days meeting in Beirut, the head of invited delegations focused their discussions on objectives, aim and target of the Institution. They also drafted an action plan for the next year, to help youth of the region to value the differences and share same dreams and hope for a better life. Thus, except the role of the Parliament, the representatives of the country chapters got along on a series of objectives and orientations like guidelines to allow at this Parliament to achieve the goal fixed during its creation. In meantime, the following persons were elected as the executive board:  - President: Wadia Ait Hamza (Morocco)
- Vice-President Finance: Nader Houella (Lebanon)
- Secretary: Yamina Mechri (Tunisia)
- Events Coordinator: Nabeel Ali (Jordan)
- Public Relation and Media officer: Massinissa Bouagache (Algeria)