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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UNIC Yaounde celebrated the International Youth Day on 11 August 2004 during UNIC's monthly Press Club. The celebration on the theme "Youth in an Intergenerational Society" was chaired and moderated by the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Cameroon and was attended by approximately seventy government officials from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of National Education, and by representatives of the United Nations System, youth associations and the media.

UNIC Tripoli welcomed scouts on the International Youth Day celebration held on 21 August 2004. The participants watched United Nations films and collected United Nations information materials.

In Tanzania, the Youth of United Nations Association and the Tanzania Youth Vision Association, in collaboration with the International Labor Organization (ILO), organized the celebration of the International Youth Day at the Karimjee Hall in Dar es Salaam. The event started with a parade to the hall where an ILO representative read the message of the Secretary-General, while the Minister of Labour and Youth Development presented the message of the Government.

The Centre's Information Officer attended the celebration on behalf of both UNIC and UNDP. The function, funded by ILO, was covered extensively by the media. On the occasion of the International Youth Day in 2003, the United Nations Department of Public Information in Armenia organized a Model United Nations. The Office also organized an exhibition of UN publications, posters and documents on Youth Empowerment in collaboration with the UN House and the depository libraries.