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The General Assembly: Governments, we dont
want!
The General Assembly sat down to discuss the fragile
issue of anti-government movements and surprisingly
when they were needed the most in a committee that
is highly important to them, the delegates from Iraq
and Afghanistan were a no-show. The agenda started
out by China starting out by declaring its support for
foreign intervention and supporting the Middle-East
uprisings which raised quite a few eyebrows as China is
a country where anti-authoritative movements were
and are suppressed. Serbia and Austria asserted that
there should be a transmission to newer forms of
government as opposed to foreign intervention.
Corruption, Inequality, security crisis, malnutrition,
economic deprivation and legal protection were the
causes outlined for anti-government movements.
Russia rightly proclaimed that due to the multi-faceted
culture of the Middle East, opposition within the
various sects of people would hamper the formation of
a government.
Libya firmly proclaimed that there was no need
for foreign intervention and that the arrival of NATO
forces only propagated the violence. The U.S though
replied by saying that one of the basic ideas of the UN
is to maintain peaceful security and to stop the misuse
of privileges. Frankly the U.S is right in saying that with
its nearly infinite resources it can help some of the
countries who really need the help that the U.S brings.
With U.S and NATO support free citizens are able to
withstand the wrath and the tyranny of dictators and
power mongers.
Futuristic Crisis Committee: Oil is everything!
The futuristic crisis committee (FCC), was in fact all to
do with OPEC and the abolishment of the USD in favor
of another currency. The OPECs decision to buy/sell
oil in every other currency except for the USD was
welcomed by countries like Russia and Nigeria and was
condemned by Kuwait, Canada and U.S. The US dollar
has bought about an era of longstanding peace and
even today commands a certain respect and therefore
U.S rightly argued that OPEC not trading in the USD is
catastrophic to other commodities. The countries
against the USD, Russia and Nigeria proposed to use a
basket of currencies and Iraq stated that there was no
guarantee that the new currencies would prove
successful.
The motion of the volatility of oil prices &
countries respective stances was immediately
rejected by Canada because of the huge monetary loss
it would pose, as the NAFTA agreement allows Canada
to sell to the US on a fixed rate. Australia however,
wont be affected much by these reforms because of
their internal resources. Saudi Arabia and India
amused us all by their absence in the proceedings.
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Interpol: What is extraordinary rendition???
The session of the Interpol commenced with theformal setting of the agenda -the extraordinary
rendition of people accused of terrorism. Delegates
from various countries like Netherlands and Australia
set out to re-define extraordinary rendition stating to
revise the existing laws and that the concept of
extraordinary rendition is itself a breach of human
rights. The delegate from Saudi Arabia was raising
questions on the authenticity of the Interpol without
having certain proof and therefore was asked toapologize to the chair. USA, in spite of being accused
of fighting terrorism with terrorism, stated its foreign
policies regarding extraordinary rendition lucidly,
emphasizing on the point that human rights are not
violated. The chairperson spoke to the committee
regarding the fact that Interpol has the power to come
up with a definition of extraordinary rendition and this
arises the need to come up with a consensus on
whether extraordinary rendition is legal or not.
The chairman expressed utmost care and
content for the council, even going as far as making
the drowsy delegates walk around the committee hall
once they reassembled after the break. With the
regenerated energy the committee moved on to the
moderate caucus for coming up with a definition of the
term extraordinary rendition. The delegate of Israel
pointed out that the existing definition isincomprehensible because the major factor vital to the
explanation of the term requires a clear description of
the term terrorism, and that itself has several
definitions.
Non-Alignment Movement: Security Council
just a walk in the park?
The starting point of the Non-Alignment movement
was not pretty but eventually the committee turned
out some useful points. India led the way into
demanding a permanent seat on the Security Council
but was lashed out by other countries like Libya andMadagascar which said that It is meaningless to give a
permanent seat to India which cannot handle its own
domestic matters. Wonder how the U.S might
respond to that since it had promised India a seat in
the Security Council. The U.S delegate rightly said that
the day India becomes a more responsible country, is
the day it will get a permanent membership of the
Security Council. Cuba for the sole reason that India
helped them out in the war decided that help in a warqualifies a country for the membership of the most
important organ of the United Nations.
In the
second round
reforms on Veto
power were the
hot topic as
Vietnam argued,but the other
delegates shot this down as then the UN would be
taking a step backwards to the League of Nations if
everyone would be given Veto power. Libya, U.S.A and
Senegal agree that some peculiar countries should
have veto power whereas Philippines disagrees and
says everyone has equal rights, but if everyone has
equal rights then how can anyone ever agree on one
particular thing?
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Conference on disarmament sparks off
monotony
The conference on disarmament was perhaps the most
monotonous of all the committees but when it took off
things started to get somewhat interesting. U.S.A who
incidentally hold 48% of the worlds arms were in
support for disarmament. The U.S talked about how it
had been the leader in disarmament and how it was
rightly so in persuading countries like South Korea to
start with the disarmament plans which was seconded
by South Korea as well. It looked like people are really
on the race to establish permanent peace as China also
called for total abandonment of the arms race. Many
countries like Iraq even went as far as to share their
arms plans on a global scale. The U.S stated that In
spite of having a majority decision there should be a
consensus based on the fact that these agreements
should not be made by creating a vacuum in the
exports and the imports of firearms, upon which U.S
asked for a clear definition of a secure state . U.S
cleared the air by stating that a secure state would be
one which does not have internal strife, where the
number of extremist elements would be negligible and
one where the people would not have any contention
against the government. India, while asserting the
need to realize the social menace that revolves around
the arms trade like poverty and drug abuse, said that a
complete cut off of arms trade was not possible
because of these impendingsocial issues.
Overall the
consensus was reached by
the assembly on issues
pertaining to transparency
of stockpile of weapons,
control of illicit arms trade,
creation of a neutral body
for the check of imports and
exports of weapons for
individual states.
Entertainment: Bringing outthe gossip queen in you!
Conference on Disarmament
Mr. Long legs, a.k.a the Delegate of Spain requests tosit at the side
The Delegate of Russia, dances more and speaks less Mr. Long legs went from formal to barely even
dressing up, from coat to a tie in his pocket
Interpol
The best dancer by far was the delegate of Mexico.People here sure know how to shake a leg!
The delegate was UAE and the delegate of China wasconversing on every possible
point. Hope its all in the
interest of academics!
The Interpol had aconstant stream of visitors; the
most famous of them was the
Chair of NAM coming in to
meet the chair. Keep at it
fellas!