OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE BALTIC MODEL UNITED NATIONSIssue 4/2013 • Sunday, May 26th, 2013 • www.facebook.com/TheBalticHerald • www.twitter.com/BALMUN

CONF MANAGER CLAUS LUCAS:IT WILL WORK WITHOUT ME

It‘s his last conference. Herald did the last interview with Claus Lucas Letsch ...........p. 5

WE ARE THE YOUTH! INTERVIEW WITH UN YOUTH DELEGATESElise and Floria represent the German Youth at the real United Nations......p. 6

YOUR CHOICE TO VOTE: WHO IS NEXT MISS AND MISTER BALMUNThe Baltic Herald shows all candidates for this year‘s title........................p. 7

MISS

“I AM SIMPLY BALMUNIN LOVE WITH

THANK YOU AND GOOD-BYEPictures of BALMUN Dance full of love .............................................................p. 8

Exclusive Interview with Miss President Alexandra Bartsch. We asked her, why she‘s the best decision for her position.................p. 4

PRESIDENT:

THE BEST“

MUNSTER‘S CORNER

Day three

Today starts pretty wet for the poor crazy press aunt. Really, when I wanted to get drowned on my way to school, I would

have fallen into a pool. After I finally get to ma-nage to dry my clothes (so I won’t have to barge into the committees like a drowned rat) I will try to fix up my hair (it stays an attempt after all, I am afraid), and quietly I sneak into the DC.Fortunately they did not start with the main

discussion yet, but with the punishment for those who misbehaved yesterday or came late today, because they overslept (or took a shower in the rain outside, who knows?) and so I take my favourite seat in the rearmost corner and act like a fly on the wall. Though, what I didn’t expect was the non-existent motivation of the delegates, who were not in the mood to ridi-cule themselves so early in the morning. After their feet danced humble semicircles to “Call me maybe”, I can not longer stand the misery and therefore I decide to add my two cents as the crazy press aunt, because the chairs obviously consider “Gangnam Style” as the better song to push up the atmosphere. Totally aware that I dispose myself of all the dignity I’ve ever gai-ned I hit the “dance floor” (means the middle of the room, framed by tables) and move my hips to PSY. Lucky me that the other delegates are positively surprised and join my attempts to fulfil their punishment, what helps to lessen my embarrassment quite a lot. Frankly spoken, they really can do pretty awesome moves! After five persons captured that awkward moment with their Digi-Cams and mobile phones for the posterity and YouTube, I finally fix up my clothes and rush back to my beloved corner. A fly on the wall with a deep blush. Marvellous. I really do hope that I won’t disgrace myself that much in today’s BALMUN-Dance, otherwise my reputa-tion (preconditioned I still have one) will not remain as “crazy”, but as “crazy and bad dancing press aunt”!

Steffie Janssen Vincent Glesche

Have some fun, meet people at the dance floor (maybe some sexy boys?) and do all the party stuff.

Well, of course partying and having fun, all the things you usually do there.

What Do You Expect FromBALMUN Dance?

Maria Rosenberger Felice van Gelderen

Well, I hope to whitewash my reputation from this morning and show everyone that I’m not as bad at dancing as it may have seemed today!

I hope that the music is nice, because otherwise the crazy dancing is not going to work. And crazy dancing I really like, especially with my best friend Tessa.

Oliver Hartwich Till Lennartz

My expectations? I hope they will broadcast the champions league! :)

Tonight? I’ll hit the dance floor and meet new people!

Human trafficking and religious minorities are the main priorities of the Human Rights Committee. At the third day, the debates have been in full progress and the com-mittee contributed a lot to make this discussion, about such impor-tant issues, productive. The importance of these issues accor-

ding to our world, were shown in the number of resolutions. Three of them were about human trafficking and the last one about religious minorities. One of them has already passed through the procedure of debating with several amendments that every delagation was able to agree with it. Main submitter of this resolution was Saudia Arabia. The delegation from the desert states seems to have impressed the rest of the committee with its know-how. Also Is-rael and Italy are vigorous. And as if this was not enough, China and The Repub-lic of Korea banded together.The other resolutions were contributed

by: Sweden, Egypt and Syria. In addi-tion to serious disputes they have also

Human Rights

Debating. Discussing. Dancing. This characterizes the committee and its results of the second day. With a fruitful debate, a lot of fun and motivation the delegates and chairs are solving their BALMUN. But there weren‘t any hints that the

debate has been boring at any time. The chairs always knew what to do and how to keep this comittee alive. One of these things have been the punishment which contained a dance to the song „Call me maybe“ including the legen-dary „Gangnamstyle“. In our eyes it was fun for the spectators of this spectacular but not for the delegates at all. To keep calm a yoga lesson in the cafeteria was

Reports From The Committees

By KORAY KOCYIGIT

Committee

done everything else that breaks up the atmosphere. For example the mock de-bate about the teams FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund with focus on the Champions League Final and their favorite. Nevertheless the chairs are quite satisfied with their committe so it was not necessary to push the delega-tes a lot. Hopefully it will continue like this...

DisarmamentCommittee

organized and carried out successfully. Back in their seats the delegates tried to find solutions for their issues and did a great job so far. As we know two resolutions from the Russian Federation and the U.K. had been handed in. One has passed and one failed unfortuna-tely. Especially the delegate of Ireland had to contribute a lot, which made the whole thing quite productive. But we also found out that he should improve his handwriting-skills because his con-tributions were always a funny puzzle to solve. Also Brazil and DPRK could impress the committee. The delegate of DPRK was against quite everything in the committee. But with Isreal besides him he shouldn‘t have had any prob-lems with that. All in all this commit-tee is on a good way to complete their mission: Finding solutions to make this world a bit better and more peaceful – without - weapons.

Security CouncilLast but not least we are telling

you something about the security council. In this committee we have also two issues. The Arab spring and the consequences for the glo-bal security architecture and the

conflict between Iran and Isreal.Solving these controversial problems

with their resolutions, was the excer-cise of the delegates. So both topics were discussed with each resolution. Over the time China and the USA could establish themselves in this committee and found new cooperations with other delegations. So the USA and the Russi-an Federation were working together as a new world power. At the end the re-solutions have been changed a lot and they worked really hard to find solu-tions, even against Irans atom program. Everyone was taking part at the debate and exchanged ideas how they think our world could be a better place.But BALMUN would not be BALMUN if

we hadn‘t any funny/amusing things to tell. The delegate of Azerbaijan was committed to convince the other dele-gations of ceasing fire. In his enthusi-asm he made a mistake and at the end he tried to cheese fire instead to cease fire. But this is only one of the reasons why the committees with their dele-gates and chairs are enjoying this MUN and participate year by year. We can be quite satisfied with that what our six committees have attained. This is what the chairs are working for and it seems that they have been successful.

LAST INTERVIEW AS PRESIDENT OF THE GA

By KEVIN DUSCH

The Baltic Herald: How did you be-come the President of the General Assambly at BALMUN?The Baltic Herald: I got a call from

the Conference Management, they asked me and I said yes. But, secretely the hope was already there beforehand.The Baltic Herald: Why are you the

best choice?Alexandra:Because I AM the best. I

have the skills, my voice is awesome, especially when I am sick, and since everybody is usually scared of me and nobody will dare to misbehave, I think I am also a good authority. The Baltic Herald: Are you pleased

with the conference and especially your performance, up to now?

Alexandra: The conference is successful as always. About myself I have to say that I am a very self-aware and am-bitious person. But all in all yes, I am thrilled so far.The Baltic Herald: What goals do

you still have for the conference?Alexandra: I want to make the whole

GA cry when I am giving my speech du-ring the Closing Ceremony, so I will not be alone with that ;).The Baltic Herald: How many

MUNs have you already participa-ted in? Alexandra: About 20. BALMUN VI will be my last one.The Baltic Herald: …and then?Alexandra: I would like to start science

career. But actually I really want to use all these things I learned in MUN. There-fore I am still uncertain.

”My Voice IsAwesome“

The Editor-in-chief of The Baltic Herald, Kevin Dusch, and the President of the General Assembly, Alexandra Bartsch

Alexandra Bartsch (right) with Phine Wencke on a BALMUN event

”It Will Work Without Me“

LAST INTERVIEW AS A CONF MANAGER

BALMUN‘s conference manager Claus Lucas Letsch with Herald Editor-in-chief Kevin Dusch

Von KEVIN DUSCH

The Baltic Herald: This is your last BALMUN-Conference – How does it feel?Claus: On the one hand strange, but on

the other hand next conference will not be as stressful as this year´s. The Baltic Herald: Is it hard for

you to say good-bye to your current position at BALMUN?Claus: Yes. The Baltic Herald: Anyway, will

you take part in BALMUN next year?Claus: Absolutely! Well, I hope I do not

want to conduct the conference. The Baltic Herald: What are you

planning to do after your gradua-tion?Claus: I want to study Sociology at the

University of Hamburg. I am pretty sure I will be accepted. The Baltic Herald: Will BALMUN

still work without you?Claus: Of course.

GOOD-BYE!Claus Lucas Letsch, Leonie Vetter, Peter Voß and Malte Höppner

It was a pleasure to have you in our BALMUN Inner Circle.Looking forward to keep you as alumni members

PS Will miss the gossip stories about and with you, Claus Lucas. Matt

By HELKE REDERSBORG

The Paramedic Service at our school is a stu-dent organisation which makes the school safer. They are here to rescue people who have gotten into an accident. For BALMUN there are every day two or three Paramedics to make sure your stay is protected.

Life-saverbehind the curtain

Editors-in-chiefKevin DuschDeputy Editor-in-chiefCaroline LuschLayoutMatthias BannertFrancine SelmsStaffAnna Kondratenko, Jenia Barnert, Koray Kocyigit, Helke Redersborg, Maria Ro-senberger, Vanessa Seyfert

By ANNA KONDRATENKO and KORAY KOCYIGIT

We had the honor to welcome the German youth delegates Florian Nowack and Elise Zerrath. They were visiting us this year to catch up some impressions, giving some tipps and see what is going on here in Rostock. We used this opportu-nity and asked them a few questi-ons...

The Baltic Herald: Elise, Florian, Why are you visiting BalMUN?Elise & Florian: Rostock is a beau-

tiful city. Since 2008 it is a tradition for the German youth delegates to visit the BALMUN. The Baltic Herald: What are your

tasks as a youth delegate?Elise & Florian: We are representing

over 15 million young people. In relati-on to this about the half of the world‘s population is under the age of 20. Any-

how the older people are dominating the global politics and that‘s why Ger-many implements the youth delegation since 2005. We are informing adolescents about

several problems and visiting ten cities a month to work together with young people. As a whole all youth delegates of 30

countries are working together and ser-ving as advisiors of diplomats at the UN.The Baltic Herald: Do you like the

UN‘s Model at the Baltic Sea?Elise & Florian: Yes, it is a really nice

project to learn more about the UN and to get to know the debating procedures. The youth delegates were astonished about the very well prepared delega-tes and the fruitful and high-levelled debates. We really like to thank you that you

have taken the time to answer our questions. We wish you the best and hope to see you next year once again.

The YouthOf TheUnitedNations

INTERVIEW WITH UN YOUTH DELEGATES

MISS AND MISTER BALMUN

YOUR VOTE! TODAY AT THE CLOSING CEREMONY

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