Licypriya meets King Charles-Ill, addresses Berlin dialogue
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, March 30 2023: Eleven year-old Indian climate activist Licypriya Kangujam of Manipur met King Charles III of the United Kingdom in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday, during which she talked about Manipur and the strategy to fight climate change with the King.

On her three-day official visit to Germany, she also met with the country's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Kenyan president William Ruto.

Licypriya urged the German president to pay climate compensation to the poor vulnerable countries.

The first from Manipur to meet the British King, Licypriya was invited specially by the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver the keynote address of the 9th Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2023 .

In her address, Licypriya said: "Don't forget why you are here today.

You are not here to give a few minute speeches to get some claps from the audience and to forget what you're talking about here.

Stop giving beautiful speeches in every event, meetings and conferences.

Our future lies in your hands now.

"There is a long history of lies by our leaders.

That's why our planet is in irreparable damage today.

Sacrificing the lives of millions of innocent children for the failures of our leaders is unacceptable at any cost", she asserted.

"Instead of spending billions of dollars in wars, if we spent it on ending poverty, giving education and fighting climate change, what a great place our earth would be!", she added.

Kenyan president William Ruto appreciated Licypriya for her powerful inspiring speech and she climbed up to the stage to appreciate her.

Licypriya met German President.

Frank-Walter and King Charles III at the German Presidential Palace The King praised Licypriya for her incredible work at a young age and assured her full support.

President Frank-Walter also expressed his gratitude to Licypriya for accepting the invitation to visit Berlin.

Licypriya was accompanied by her mother.

She told the German media: "My visit to Berlin will strengthen my climate movement.

It gives me new strength and hope for our planet.

I'm not just representing here, my voice is for all the children of the world, indigenous people and the voice of the poor countries affected by the global climate crisis.

I tvant our leaders to fulfil their promises".

It may be noted that Licypriya recently kept a new Guinness World Record for cleaning our planet.

She made the world's largest sentence with plastic bottles, collected through her plastic money shop project with her sister Irina Vokova Kangujam.

Not just breaking the world record, it sent a strong message about the global plastic pollution crisis to the whole world.

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