Welcome to Algeria Stamps

15th World Festival of Youth and Students

Algeria hosts from August 8 to 16, 2001, the 15th edition of the World Youth and Students Festival. For the first time in its history this event is taking place in Africa and in an Arab-Muslim region. After Prague in 1947, Budapest in 1949, Berlin in 1951, Bucharest in 1953, Warsaw in 1955, Moscow in 1957, Vienna in 1959, Helsinki in 1962, Sofia in 1968, Berlin in 1973, Havana in 1978, Moscow in 1985, Pyongyang in 1989, Havana in 1997, Algeria will host in 2001 the Festival Movement which constitutes for world youth a space for free expression of their concerns and a forum for solidarity with the peoples. The participation of the world's youth in Algiers represents an international act of solidarity with Africa and also with the Algerian people and particularly its youth. It also responds to a major concern, that of bringing together the world's youth at the start of the millennium around their major concerns. Through this act of solidarity, the youth of the world will demonstrate their determination to promote peace, democracy, human rights, progress, modernity and social well-being. The Algiers festival will be a forum open to young people from around the world without distinction or exclusion, a festival which will bring together young people to exchange their experiences and to find potential solutions to different problems and establish an action plan on subjects such as: Peace, solidarity, disarmament, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, conflicts and instability, blockades and embargoes, the displacement of peoples, human rights, science and technology, media and culture, the eradication of racism, equality, education, employment, poverty, the environment, AIDS, drug abuse and many other themes. Algiers will be for young people and students of the world an intellectual, political, scientific, cultural and sporting space, it will also be a space of interculturality and confrontation of ideas, in an objective and serene environment, and will be the capital of Youth and Students of the third millennium.