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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!