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www.balmun.de • Sunday/Monday, June 1st and 2nd, 2008• Issue 3/2008
Save the Planet - Plant A Tree Environmental Committee takes part at United Nations campaign
The delegates from the
Environmental Committee
(EC) were probably hoping for
some relaxing spare time
when they were told to move
to the schoolyard on Friday
morning. But they were
wrong! Biology teacher Mrs.
Rieck was waiting for them
with spades and watering cans
and a big mission: Saving the
planet by planting a tree, well,
or at least an herb garden.
Mrs. Rieck told us that this
idea was based on an UN pro-
ject. Besides, she emphasized
that she wanted young people
to learn something about
sustainability. “I‟m shocked,
how clueless some of them are
as sustainability is concerned.
By the way, this is a great
chance for them to get to
know each other in the context
of practical work.”
The Baltic Herald Press
Team had a lot of fun wat-
ching the delegates from the
EC, that had dutifully obeyed
to the dress code, while doing
their garden work. Though
she was wearing an amazing
dress, Chair Eugenia Andrejuk
admitted ironically: “I love
this job. I‟d rather be a garde-
ner than a Chair.” She had
even replaced her business
shoes with a bright, colourful
pair of sneakers.
The honourable delegates
from Denmark and Russia,
Robert Reifeld and Ludwig
Boddin, told us frankly: “We
hate garden work.” Probably
that was why they were spen-
ding a remarkable amount of
time on adjusting their tie.
After arranging the herb
garden situated next to the
students kitchen our hard-
working delegates finally re-
ceived a recompense. The tea-
chers had prepared self-made
bread and curd cheese with
herbs which gave an example
of a sustainable breakfast.
When all the dirty work
was done, Deputy Secretary-
General Wencke Lubojanski
and Secretary-General Torge
Schwandt, posed in the bed.
Guys, we have seen through
your façade!
By
KAROLIN DARMÜNTZEL
and KRISTIN GRAMSE
The Secretaries General Torge Schwandt and Wencke Lubojanski helped the Environmen-
tal Committee with teacher Mrs Rieck at the UN campaign "Plant A Tree".
Photos: Karoline Darmüntzel
And she said YES! Surprise ! In an Innercircle
meeting yesterday, Deputy
Headmaster and BALMUN
Supervisor Mrs. Regine Koch
said, that there will be a next
BALMUN conference in 2009.
Till that point of time it
was not really sure, if there
will be a next BALMUN. Mrs.
Koch was glad to announce
some members of the next
BALMUN team.
The conference will start
on June 11th, 2009.
Will you be there?
By MATTHIAS BANNERT
Mrs. Regine Koch
yesterday.
BALMUN Issue 3 / 2008 • Page 2
EDITOR„S NOTE Wow. It„s do-
ne. I can„t be-
lieve BALMUN
is over. It has
been full-time
stress over
(more than)
four days. But I„m also sad that
this is over now. What should I
do with my freetime now? :-)
Some of the Inner circle mem-
bers cried. Because of sadness
and because of losing lots of
weight that they carried on their
shoulders. I feel nearly the sa-
me. BALMUN and the work on
The Baltic Herald was one of
my most important life expe-
riences. I will miss the time. But
I„m looking forward to the next
BALMUN conference. Perhaps
with me? Who know. Thank
you guys !
Lovely greetings Matt
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© 2008 by BALMUN / The Baltic Herald
Correction Referring to the article of
yesterday„s issue about the
Political Comittee the we want
to correct the claim the delega-
te of Denmark change the
committee to ECOSOC becau-
se of her friend. We got this
information from the Chair of
the PC Lukas Krönert. The
Delegate of Denmark corrects
this matter: „I wanted to leave
the Political Committee, becau-
se I was asked by the chairs of
the ECOSOC to represent a
developing country.“
This is BALMUN„s
Youngest Delegate
“Preferably, I would like
to be a delegate in the UN in
the future”, says Alexander
Cohen, delegate for Denmark.
What‟s so special about him?
Because the young boy is only
twelve years old right now.
Originally, he comes from
Ottawa (Canada) and lives
with his father in Berlin at the
moment. “My dad is a profes-
sor for journalism and foreign
affairs, actually I‟m only for
one year here but I‟d love to
stay longer.”
“MUN is a great way to
meet new people, discuss
opinions and to open your
mind for new aspects. This
year I‟ve already attended
four MUNs.” Alexander likes
to read, sports magazines and
even gossip, and loves to tra-
vel. He calls it “collecting
countries”. In Germany he has
already visited cities like Co-
logne, Nuremberg, Hamburg
and Dresden
and he also
likes the Han-
seatic city of
Rostock.
Being the
youngest dele-
gate is no prob-
lem, “it‟s cool
and I think
MUN is not
only for older
people.” The
Danish delega-
te is also satis-
fied with BAL-
MUN. “Though
it‟s their first
time they did a
great job and I
have a pretty
pleasant im-
pression.”
The apple doesn't fall far
from the tree – young Alexan-
der would like to become
either a writer or politician,
just like his father.
“I don‟t want to sit in an
tedious office alone but to
meet new people and travel a
lot.” Ladies and Gentlemen,
this is the new generation of
MUN managers: When he
comes back to Canada he
plans to organize his own
MUN there. Our future is
saved.
By CHRISTINE RUPPERT
and STELLA MARIA FREI
Alexander Cohen (12 years)
Photo: Christine Ruppert
A Spy in the Editorial Rooms
Robert Straßburg, Chief of
Administration, tried to spy
out the editorial rooms of
"The Baltic Herald" on Friday
evening. When nearly all
members of the Press Team
had finished their work and
left the room, he entered and
went straight to a computer
to have a look onto an article
written by one of the editors.
Straßburg criticised the con-
tent and was up to censor the
independent newspaper of
BALMUN 2008.
All members of Press
claim herewith the freedom of
press!
By
KAROLINE DARMÜNTZEL
Mr. Robert Straßburg
Page 3 • Issue 3 / 2008
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Issue 3 / 2008 • Page 4 COMMITTEES
Herald Talks to some DC Delegates
On Saturday morning the
press team was just visiting
the Disarmament Committee
and followed some debates.
At BALMUN 2008 the whole
discussions are under the
main topic “Preventing the
acquisition of radioactive ma-
terial sources”.
After a hot and successful
debate we talked to the chair
and a few delegates.
Erik Muttersbach (18),
chair: “I‟ve been working in
the DC already last year and
I‟ve made fantastic experien-
ces. It‟s a great pleasure and
honour to be the chair this
year, also the main topic in-
nervating.” So far, the discus-
sions have
been fruit-
ful though
“it‟s so hot
o u t s i d e ” ,
he smiles.
Philip Jorsboe (16): The
delegate of the USA is proud
to be a member of the Disar-
mament Committee. “The
USA is the mightiest country
in the world”, he says. “We
support disarmament but all
countries should work to-
gether, we don‟t want to do it
alone.” Also he is very inte-
rested in the
issue of
discussing
t e r r o r i s m
which is an
up-to-date
topic.
Paul Funck (18): “Every
state wants international safe-
ty and for this we should all
work in concert. Selling atomic
weapons to terrorists should
be prevented.” He saw the DC
as a possibility to have pro-
found debates from Nigerian
point of view.
Max Wollfart (17) :
“Honestly, the UK, that I am
representing, always sticks to
the United States. That‟s why
we also think that nuclear
energy is effective and cheap.”
Max has already attended
MUN conferences nine times,
he started in
class 9. Spe-
cial is also
that he went
to the British
embassy to
be well
enough pre-
pared.
By CHRISTINE RUPPERT
Human Rights Committee gets Visit
On Saturday the Human
Rights Committee (HRC) had
the honour to meet Mrs. Mar-
git Forster, a representative of
the organisation “Solidarity
w i t h W o m e n i n
Distress” (SOLWODI) from
Berlin. While the UN Youth
Delegate Nicolas Klein repor-
ted in front of the General
Assembly, Mrs. Forster shared
her experience of twelve years
working in Africa and 15 years
in Italy. After an introduction
to the topic “Trafficking in
Persons: The Winners and
Losers of Global Market”, the
HRC watched a film concer-
ning this topic. It showed the
destiny of women affected by
human trafficking and sexual
exploitation in a shocking and
moving way. A lecture and an
engaged discussion followed.
Mrs. Forster came not only
to talk about her work, but
also to learn from the delega-
tes by whom she was very
impressed: “I had a quick look
on your resolutions. They
sound really good!” she
complimented the delegates.
The work on these resolutions
was shaped by diversified
impressions from movies,
speeches and discussions. Ne-
vertheless it was not easy to
pass a final resolution because
developing and developed
countries disagreed in several
points. “In the end we passed
the resolution by the develo-
ped nations,
but actually
it‟s pretty
much univer-
sal” told the
Danish dele-
gate Alexan-
der Cohen.
By KRISTIN GRAMSE,
KAROLINE DARMÜNTZEL
and KATE ILYINA
Margit Forster speaks about Winners and Losers of Global Market
Mrs. Margit Forster in the Human Rights
Committee
Page 5 • Issue 3 / 2008 COMMITTEES
UN Youth Delegate speaks
in General Assembly
A real important guest
attended the today‟s General
Assembly: Nicholas Klein –
youth delegate for the UN. He
told the minimized audience
under the interims GA presi-
dent Torge Schwandt about
his work. Since February 2005
he travels with his colleague
through Germany and meets
“as much youth groups as
possible” to stay in touch with
those he is determined to re-
present – the juveniles of Ger-
many. The most important
and moving subjects he trans-
mits the German Delegates
which integrate those topics to
the General Assembly are sup-
posed to be presented in the
General Assembly in Septem-
ber in New York City.
By STELLA MARIA FREI
UN Youth delegate Nicholas
Klein.
Photo: Stella Maria Frei
Discussion about
Democracy in SC
„Yesterday we talked a lot
and didn‟t reach anything”,
says Cuba delegate Rodrigo
Pereira. Today it seemed like
this is past: especially Cuba
and the United Kingdom dis-
cussed their
e x t r e m e l y
d i v e r g e n t
p e r s p e c t i -
v e s .
“Democracy
is never
perfect, eve-
ry country
has the right to establish its
own government system”,
says the committed Cuba dele-
gate. Also such countries as
China and Saudi-Arabia sup-
port the Socialists claim.“ It is
also possible to establish a non
-democratic system while
respecting human rights”, says
the Chinese delegate. Above
all the British delegate cited
Churchill: “Democracy isn‟t
the only
form of go-
vernment –
but the best”
to underline
his affinity
towards the
p o p u l a r
government.
During the debate topics like
Monitoring special agencies
and governments were also
touched.
By STELLA MARIA FREI
Where is the Russian Delegate?
Yesterday the representing
of different countrys in the
Security Council was very
turbulent. After the Russian
delegate appeared without
suit on Friday and getting
trouble because of that he
didn‟t show up in committee
yesterday. So the President,
Friedrich Leukert, and Deputy
President, Perke Jacobs, had to
replace Russian by an other
delegate. The committee deci-
ded to choose former Cuba
delegate Andre Andrade Rose
from Brasilia. He wanted to
replace Russia in order to pass
his resolution.
But not long after this
change Rose
gave the
post of the
delegate
of Russia
to the
f o r m e r
delegate of
Iran.
So the
ending of the
story is that
Russia voted
for the elected
member resolu-
tion and bring
the Presi-
dents‟ ti-
metable
mixed
up.
Even today the
debates in SC
were not pea-
ceful. Accor-
ding to the
President of
the Security
C o u n c i l
Iran, Nor-
way and
Russia want
to stop
o i l
supply for the USA and the
Norway get kicked from the
NATO.
So we see debates in the
SC are every time very inte-
resting. I hope it will be like
this again and again.
By THOMAS WEGENER
Russia disappered in Security Council
“Democracy isn‟t the
only form of government
– but the best” Churchill
BALMUN„s VIPs Baltic Herald Shows you all the Important People of BALMUN 2008
They are always in a hurry
and have no free time at all.
We asked them for an inter-
view a hundred times and
they answered: “Later, later,
later!” But we caught them at
BALMUN dance. So here are
the VIPs.
“Tannemie” one of the
conference managers, the
twins of BALMUN: OLMUN
experience, some sheets of
paper and a bottle of wine was
enough to create this BAL-
MUN. An-
n e m a r i e
Nack said:
“No one
here had
such an
event so we
sat down and wanted to do it
for us in our own way. So we
thought about Baltic MUN.”
Tanja Schmidt: “We were
not best friends before mana-
ging but we became special
friends so now we are closer
than best friends. No one
could imagine that we get all
this staff straight in the head
because we are not typical
MUN participants but as you
see we made it! And the feed-
back is genious and everyone
said we are professionals. We
also thought about next year
and a new team – maybe Frie-
derike Jantzen and Karo
Kieckhäfer will be conference
manager next year. We want
to teach them how to do it.”
Kai Budde, Mister Presi-
dent: “I don‟t believe that all
went so well, all the delegates
were carefully arranged. I like
the team very much; the who-
le conference would be great
when the team is okay. And I
wish for
next year
that the
t e a m
would be
as great as
now. And
the BALMUN would be better,
can you imagine better than
now?! It is important for peo-
ple to get to know each other
so at BALMUN dance it is the
greatest chance to get to know
people from all over the
world! I hope to see everyone
next year again… but I will be
in Bolivia, like a volunteer”
Wencke Lubojanski, "De
Pussy" Secretary General
with an empty glass in her
hand: “The committee‟s
have done a great job and
I really enjoyed the cultu-
ral exchange between the
participants. Of course
there were stressful and messy
moments but I learned to trust
people. MUN is a big event
and you have to share tasks.
The chairs were without an
exception grandiose. So I hope
to see some delegates again.
Thank you for coming and the
great job of the staff, chairs,
press..!!!”
We searched for Torge
Schwandt, Secretary General,
but he came too late to the
disco (nearly at 1 am) when
the most delegates already
gone, as he said us he was
very “busy”, and prepared
himself for a night…
But still we caught him
after morning photographing,
and he answered on couple of
our questions:
“Honestly, I‟m amazed
greatly; we achieved more
than we planned. The confe-
rence is our truly success, we
can be proud of ourselves, we
are professionals! What con-
cerns the mistakes, I suppose
that we will analyze and sum-
marize our job after several
weeks. But now I‟m pleased,
the job was productive and
great. Hopefully we will conti-
nue in the same way!”
By KATE ILYINA
and SOPHIE KAMPF
Issue 3 / 2008 • Page 6 BALMUN
"And the BALMUN
would be better, can you
imagine better than now?!"
Conference managers Annemarie Nack and Tanja Schmidt. Photos: Matthias Bannert
Secreatary General Torge Schwandt and President of the GA
Kai Budde; "De Pussy" Wencke Lubojanski
Page 7 • Issue 3 / 2008 PRESS TEAM
The Most
Interesting
Place
Facts, facts and nothing but
facts! This guideline should
haven been pinned at the door
of room 0.13 where the Press
Team worked (nearly) day and
night to provide you with the
breaking BALMUN news. The
Baltic Herald says thank you to
all those who made room 0.13
to one of the most interesting
places of the conference by
reporting the latest gossip. (Of
course, we only
considered serious
news!) Especially
we would like to
thank all our curi-
ous, interested and
critical readers.
See you at BAL-
MUN 2009!
By KRISTIN GRAMSE
The Daily Way of "The Baltic Herald"
Planning the next
issue and writing
the stories Layouting (by the
way above is the
work place of editor
-in-Chief Matt
Printing the pages
Folding
each
single
issue...
Transporting
newspapers
back to
school
"The Baltic
Herald" is
ready for
release
"Probably the Best
MUN newspaper"
I was really proud and
even more scared as I was told
to lead the first BALMUN
press team. But when I
got first applications I
was really glad. It seems
to me that I got an op-
portunity. An opportu-
nity to work with a
great team. Karoline,
Stella Maria, Lisa, Kris-
tin, Kate, Sophie, Anto-
nia, Jonas, Christine,
Eric and Thomas. They
are all fascinating peo-
ple and amazing journalists.
We worked out the first issue
of The Baltic Herald. And all
BALMUN conferences in futu-
re will have an own newspa-
per, named The Baltic Herald -
the newspaper we created!
We made a newspaper
with service tips, with infor-
mation about our committees,
investigative reports and some
gossip news. (I know you li-
ked our last page most…). All
in all I would say we did a
great job for a MUN newspa-
per. And as I already said in
my speech in the closing cere-
mony: Probably the best MUN
newspaper!
Thank you for all. Thank
you Karoline, Stella Maria,
Lisa, Kristin, Kate, Sophie,
Antonia, Jonas, Christine,
Eric and Thomas for working
with me. Thank you Inner
Circle to trust me. Thank you
all readers, supporters, spon-
sors. And I„d also like to
thank the
future BAL-
MUN team
for keeping
this alive!
And thank
you Mrs.
Koch! We did
the right!
By MATTHIAS BANNERT
Warning note by editor-in
-Chief Matt on personal
belongings
Head of Press Matthias Bannert holding
a speech at the General Assembly
Issue 3 / 2008 • Page 8 GOSSIP PAGE
Delegates Drank Alcohol and
Danced to Trashy Music BALMUN Party Last Night in the Bacio Lounge
Too much alcohol for the
delegates?
Party manager Henning Wulfert
Party and Fun
The Chief of Staff...
Conference manager and Presi-
dent of the GA in a good mood.
Hey Mr. Deejays
BBQ guys
Womanizer Erik
Muttersbach
Young Alex rocks the
dance floor
Where are the suits?
What about the dress
code? Last night eve-
rything was leasure.
Because the "leasure
manager", we call him
party manager, Henning
Wulfert organized a
BALMUN party in the
club Bacio Lounge.
The delegates forgot
about resolutions and
had fun the whole night.
Many of the BALMUN
guests used the oppor-
tunity to flirt with the
honorable MUN mem-
bers or just to drink lots
of alcohol.
More photos on our
website
www.balmun.de
By MATTHIAS
BANNERT