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Closing Speech by Gessienne GREY, Secretray General of the Futurecasters Global Young
Visionaries Summit and 10th edition of FerMUN

Madam Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau,

Honourable guests, dear participants,

We have spent the last three days working hard, working creatively. Working together.

And if we’ve done our job right, then when we leave this room, we’ll still have work to do.

How do we apply the solutions developed at this conference in our communities? How do we

get involved? How do we make sure that, in 10 years, we will be proud of the impact we've
had?

Over the past three days, our nine model UN committees took on challenging issues. We
grappled with geopolitical tensions, economic limitations, and technological risks. We proved

that we are capable of tackling these difficult questions through diplomacy and debate.

For the first time ever, FerMUN also featured two Youth Assemblies. In these assemblies, we were
challenged to push our own limits, to find out just how much we dare to do.

Nearly a hundred delegates collaborated in these assemblies to formulate pledges and action
proposals detailing their visions for a more equal, more inclusive, more cooperative future.

So what happens now?

FerMUN 2020 doesn’t end here!

Now, the results of our debates are headed to the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, to the United

Nations Office in Geneva, and to the United Nations Headquarters in New York. They will be
presented to ITU member States in March.

These organisations are engaging with us, because they recognize the huge stake that our
generation has in the future. The resolutions we have written, debated, and voted on at this

conference are bold, original ideas, firmly rooted in the twenty-first century, in its challenges
and its resources.

But generating ideas is only the first step. We must become agents of change.

And, thanks to FerMUN, we are ready to act. We now know how to examine an issue from all
sides; to appreciate a range of perspectives; to negotiate and express our point of view. We

know how to tackle difficult, multifaceted issues on a global scale. We know how to solve
problems, to evaluate risks and obstacles, and to make the best decisions.

This is the 10th edition of the FerMUN conference. Nearly 5000 young people like us have
participated in FerMUN conferences since its first edition. Imagine the potential that represents!

The potential to create solutions, to change things for the better!

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