The Delegate’s Diaries: Day 2
Day 2 at the United Nations – The Power of Speeches
Diplomats start off their day early and get straight down to business! – that’s what I learnt this morning as we headed to the EU coordination meeting two blocks from the UN Headquarters shortly before 9 am.
As a student in European Studies, the experience of taking notes diligently behind the discussion table, around which all 27 Member States were seated, could be likened to witnessing history in the making and participating in events that hitherto I had only read about in books. Then following an invigorating sprint back to our beloved UN Plaza, we commenced our work with a plenary session of the Third Committee and the truly motivational speeches by the youth delegates to this forum! It amazed, stunned and inspired me how passionate, heartfelt and goal-oriented the statements by my colleagues were only to reaffirm the belief that all of us are personally attached to the issues of youth and determined to kindle the power-having decision-makers into action! Soon it was my turn!
It is hard to imagine the stimulating feeling of anticipation that overwhelmed me before I switched on the microphone and explain the sense of inner satisfaction and accomplishment once I reached to switch it off! The duration was merely 6 minutes and yet so much efforts, thought and commitment were encapsulated in it!
