确认青年人口为发展提供了重要机遇，在这方面，着重指出会员国应与联合国系统协作，创造适当的政策环境，从而实现因大批青年人口加入劳动队伍而产生的人口红利，同时应采用注重结果的包容性办法，按照国家优先事项和法律制定并执行发展规划，并在这方面强调指出非洲联盟决定宣布 2017 年为通过投资青年利用人口红利年，
Recognizing that a youthful population creates significant opportunities for development, and underlining in this regard the importance of the creation by Member States of appropriate policy environments, in collaboration with the United Nations system, in order to realize a demographic dividend driven by large proportions of young people moving into the labour force, while adopting an inclusive results-based approach to development planning and implementation in accordance with national priorities and legislation, and stressing in this regard the decision of the African Union to proclaim 2017 the Year of Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in Youth,