The Around The World team members who are on a goodwill tour to promote the upcoming World Conference on Youth 2014 which is to be held in May this year, participated in an event held at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Berlin, Germany on Saturday.

The delegation’s next destination is Rome in Italy.

Members of several German organisations participated in the event held at the Sri Lankan Embassy on Saturday afternoon.

The delegates at the event were also briefed about the youth conference that is to be held in Sri Lanka later this year. At the occasion youth delegates from Germany handed over the German flag to the Around the World team.

Subsequently, the youth were awarded emblem badges of the World Youth Conference.

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