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Following the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of President Ben Ali's initiative to proclaim 2010 International Youth Year, the Head of State sent a message of consideration to Dr. Ali Abdessalem Triki, the president of the current 64 th General Assembly, in which he extends to him, as well as to the UN authority and to member states, his consideration for the backing and support his initiative was met with.

In his message, President Ben Ali stresses that the unanimous adoption of the initiative represents the best encouragement to pursue the efforts undertaken with the whole international community to give concrete shape to this project and achieve its lofty goals.

President Ben Ali also expresses his conviction that the General Assembly will spare no effort to back up this initiative and to fine tune preparations for the International Youth Congress, in order to ensure the best chances of success, in the service of rapprochement between peoples and in consecration of the common universal values.