Junior 8 meets 007 - Olga, Salwa and Steffen get support from UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Roger Moore
Olga (17) from Russia, Salwa (16) from Ethiopia and Steffen (17) from Germany will get high-level support today when they give a press conference in the German Presseclub in the heart of the German capital Berlin. Berlin, June 5, 2007 - Roger Moore, ex-007 and now UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, will join the three Junior 8 delegates to spread the messages of the young people to the general public. Just two hours before Olga, Salwa, Steffen and the other 71 Junior 8 participants will meet with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ths will give them a great opportunity to reach many people in Germany and abroad. Olga, Salwa and Steffen were selected by their peers at the J8 Summit in Wismar to represent them at the press conference. Steffen, a 17-year old student from state of Hessen, will represent the host country, Germany. Salwa, who lives in Addis Abeba in Ethiopia, represents the 10 participants of the non-G8 countries at the press conference.
Olga, a 17-year old student from Vyborg in Russia, will represent the G8 countries in this "Summit before the Summit" press conference. The whole week, young people from the G8 countries and the develoing world discuss the issues of the G8 Summit in Wismar, close to Heiligendamm, the venue of the G8 Summit. The G8 will bring together the "most important leaders of the world" later this week. And the young people from the Junior 8 will meet them face-to-face this coming Thursday, so they need to be prepared. Olga was selected to be in the Russian J8 team, because she put in an interesting article to the J8 competition in Russia. "To get along with other people well, you need to understand yourself and your role in the world. I wrote an essay about the identity of the Russians. I find it very important to really feel at home in your native country and to have tolerance towards other." The press conference with Roger Moore in Berlin will take place at the "Haus der Bundespressekonferenz" in Berlin at 11 AM on June 5, 2007. For further information, please contact UNICEF Germany (Rudi Tarneden, tel. +49 170 8518846).
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