Pubdate: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 Source: Belfast Telegraph (UK) Copyright: 2000 Belfast Telegraph Newspapers Ltd. Contact: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ Author: Kathryn Torney DRUGS "PARLIAMENT" TO BE HELD A Drugs and Development Youth Parliament is due to be held in Bangor tomorrow. The event is part of a Europe-wide initiative for young people to learn about, discuss and debate issues involving the production, trafficking and consumption of illegal drugs. It is hoped that it will enable them to take fuller responsibilities for the choices they make and to think of new ways to solve the drugs problem. The event at North Down and Ards Institute will be opened by Marion Smith, mayor of Bangor, and the speakers include Jane Morrice from the Women's Colaition and Fionnuala Cook, chair of the Southern Health Board. Similar youth parliaments are being run in England, Wales and throughout Europe. Tomorrow will be the third sitting of the Northern Ireland Parliament when 60 delegates from five schools and the North Down and Ards Institute will meet to formulate a drugs policy. Delegates will also be elected to attend a parliamentary session in Brussels next autumn. - --- MAP posted-by: Allan Wilkinson