Okay-pop group Seventeen, first UNESCO youth ambassador

Paris, June 26 (EFE).- The group of Okay-pop Seventeen He’s, as of this Wednesday, the primary UNESCO ambassador for youth, a title that the 13 members of the band stated they settle for as a “nice honor” to help younger folks world wide.

«Past Okay-pop, Seventeen has been a vector of expression for folks of all types»stated the Director Basic of the United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group, Audrey Azoulay, on the ceremony to current the interpreters with their accreditation diplomas.

“I’m proud and joyful that your voices carry our message world wide,” she added.

UNESCO Director-Basic Audrey Azoulay poses for a gaggle picture with members of the South Korean Okay-Pop group Seventeen throughout her appointment ceremony as UNESCO’s first youth ambassador in Paris, France, on June 26. 2024. EFE/EPA/TERESA SUAREZ

Wearing black fits, though of various kinds, every of the 13 members of the South Korean group spoke very briefly and his spokesperson, Joshua stated that they assumed this new position “with humility” and with the purpose of “giving again what we now have acquired from all of you, in order that you could have a greater future.”

“We’re decided to make use of our voice for you,” he insisted, earlier than saying that they may make a donation of 1 million {dollars} to a UNESCO international fund for youth.

«You aren’t alone. You’re a part of us and your goals are additionally the goals of Seventeen », she concluded.

The ceremony befell within the UNESCO gardens, with the Eiffel Tower within the background, amidst steady screams from the boy band’s followers, gathered subsequent to the fence of the venue.