Students play NATO leaders at Prague Atlantic Student Summit
As NATO leaders discuss future security challenges, young people who will live with the legacy of those decisions hold their own summit in Prague. Two hundred undergraduate students from all around the world are taking part is what is called the Prague Atlantic Student Summit. Ian Willoughby talked to one of the delegates for the Czech Republic, Zuzana Vanysova.
"Its a great opportunity for 200 hundred students from 50 countries worldwide to first get into contact with European and world leading politicians and second, we have a great opportunity to get to know how NATO works through simulations and to know how the procedures are going on."
What kind of issues have you been discussing?
"We haven't been discussing any main issues yet, we have two days left for that. We will be discussing the main issues, we have a complete simulation with national delegations, we are dividing the roles of foreign ministers, defense ministers. We will also discuss in councils and committees like MAC, defense committee, and nuclear policy committee."
What minister are you?
I am the defense minister.
The most important world leaders are here, who have you met or who are you going to meet over the next few days?
"Yesterday we met George Bush and we attended his only public speech here in Prague. Then today in the morning we met with Czech President Havel and Lord Robertson, the general secretary of NATO, then Donald Rumsfeld and top politicians from Portugal and Greece."
Would you like to be a politician some day?
"Sure, that's why I am here so I am interested in it very much."
