UNITED NATIONS, Mar 3 (APP): The First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, told the UN Security Council on Monday that enduring peace will be achieved when knowledge and understanding are fully valued in all societies, and stressed that her country stands with all children throughout the world.
“The value placed on education by nations’ leaders shape the core of their countries’ belief systems,” she said while presiding over the 15-member Council which met to discuss ‘Children in Armed Conflict’.
It is the first time that a US First Lady is chairing the UN’s most powerful organ under America’s presidency of the Council for the month of March.
“A nation that makes learning sacred protects its books, its language, its science and language,” she said. “It protects its future.” This leads to greater understanding, moral reasoning and tolerance of others.
Children raised in a culture rooted in intelligence develop confidence, innovate, build, compete and maintain a deep value system, Mrs. Trump said. Their knowledge fosters empathy for others, transcending geography, religion, race, gender – and even local norms.
But children raised in a culture rooted in ignorance are surrounded by disorder, and sometimes even conflict. “When a nation restricts thought, it restricts its own future,” the US First Lady argued.