The Okay-pop group BTS will go to the United Nations as presidential particular envoys for South Korea.
The Grammy-nominated boy band can be attending the 76th session of the United Nations Common Meeting session in New York, together with South Korean President Moon Jae-in from Sept. 19 to 23. The invite comes after Moon met with the celebrities and appointed them as “particular presidential envoy for future generations and tradition” at a Tuesday ceremony within the nation’s capital of Seoul.
“It’s a big honor, each as a person and a citizen, to have the ability to maintain the title of particular presidential envoy for future generations and tradition,” BTS member Kim Nam-joon, often called RM, shared on behalf of the group, the Korea Herald reported.
“We’re all the time fascinated with how we may give extra and return the love we have now obtained, and we’re simply grateful that the president has introduced us with such an enormous alternative. We’ll do our greatest as particular envoys,” he stated.
The seven-member group, which had been every given diplomatic passports and fountain pens on Tuesday, is anticipated to make a speech for the United Nations the place a video clip of their efficiency can be performed. The Okay-pop sensation is anticipated to “ship a message of consolation” to the worldwide youth.
Moreover, the group will take part within the second assembly of the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDG) Second on Sept. 20. Amongst different aims, the assembly seeks to focus on actions wanted to verify the Covid-19 “response and restoration efforts are equitable, inclusive and speed up the transition to sustainable improvement,” in response to its web site.
Following Moon’s announcement, BTS requested their younger followers to share how their previous two years have been for a collaboration with the United Nations known as “Youth Today, Your story.”
It gained’t be the group’s first time visiting the U.N. In an effort to empower the youth, the group attended the 73rd session of the U.N. Common Meeting in 2018 to assist launch Technology Limitless, a marketing campaign to “get each younger particular person into high quality training, coaching or employment by 2030.”
The main focus behind this 12 months’s Common Meeting opening can be on emphasizing the “want for higher urgency and ambition to finish the pandemic and guarantee an equitable and inexperienced restoration and accelerated implementation of the Sustainable Growth Objectives.”
Becoming a member of greater than a 100 world leaders in particular person, President Joe Biden can be set to ship his first speech earlier than the U.N. Common Meeting since taking workplace on Sept. 21.
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