Woodstock School - MUN Saturday, October 4, 2014 Issue 2

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Te MUN Times 1
HRC passed a resolu-
tion in response to the de-
mands from ISIS, which
failed to pass unanimously.
Te committee with-
drew the resolution in the
General Assembly.
Te delegate of the Unit-
ed States, Kripa Charan,
suggested making a false
statement that accepted
the recognition of the Is-
lamic state as a nation,
which would buy time for
other nations to help solve
the situation. Charan de-
clared that the US govern-
ment would interrogate
each suspect thoroughly
to protect the US citizens
from active sleeper cells
within the country.
All the delegates that
were part of the European
Union announced that
they will join their troops
together to help protect
their nations and any re-
maining troops that they
can spare will be sent to
Jordan, as the ISIS group
threatened to dismantle
their government as well.
While the European
Union took serious action
against this crisis, the del-
egate of Gabon, Sofa Yak-
ovleva, pleaded for clearer
demands from the ISIS
group as she felt the de-
mands were not specifed.
It seems, however, that the
ISIS group is not on nego-
tiable terms with the rest of
the world.
Te chairs granted an
un-moderated caucus for
the preparation of a reso-
lution and the delegates
get to work. Te delegate
of Saudi Arabia, Tenzin
Yigha, created a resolution
that all the countries in the
committee, except for Ja-
pan and China, agreed to
sign.
All the signatories
agreed to send military
forces to fght against the
ISIS troops and provide
medical aid to any nation
afected by the ISIS mili-
tants.
Te resolution recom-
mended all the countries
in the world to increase
security for the protection
of their own citizens and to
provide troops, but to re-
tain as many as needed to
protect their own nations.
Te vote was taken and the
resolution passed.
by Ameya Singh
HRC: China and Japan Vote for Destruction
Resolutions suggested by
Security Council failed to
solve Israel and Palestine
confict.
Te two countries sought
suggestions and help from
the Security Council. Both
presented working papers to
ofer their own solutions
only to infame the already
strained relationship.
Moreover, both commit-
tees angered the Deputy
Secretary General, Armaan
Mehra, who said, If neither
[Israel and Palestine] are
going to compromise, stop
wasting our [Security Coun-
cils] time.
Israel and Palestine were
never friends at the best of
times. Even before the dis-
cussion started, the Palestini-
an Prime Minister and Israeli
Prime Minister were fghting
about the working paper.
Te Israeli working paper
showed their interest to rec-
ognize Palestine as a proper
nation, ofer 60% of their
resources, and ordering Pal-
estine to acknowledge Pales-
tine Liberation Organization
as a legit organization.
In return, Israel wanted to
execute an anti-terror pro-
gram by the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, and to cut all
funds and weaponry to Ha-
mas. However, the delegate
of Russian Federation asked,
So what is this so-called an-
ti-terror program Israel talk-
ing about?
Israel stated in its resolu-
tion paper that it urges the
militaristic forces out of Gaza
strip and West Bank, but not
acting upon the issue, and
still demands a semi-control
in name of anti-terror pro-
gram.
Meanwhile, when the
ministers and spokespeople
presented their papers, they
showed moderation. Tey
did not impose rules, but
rather called upon aware-
ness, recommend a cease-
fre and encourage an equal
distribution of resources.
Because of that, when
the Israeli side presented
their paper, they were over-
whelmed by the demands,
and refused to comply. Shau-
rya Dhingra, the delegate of
USA, opposed. As long as Is-
rael doesnt recognize Pales-
tine, Palestine does not have
a place in UN, right now.
by Linh Bui
JCC calls on Security Council to
Moderate Confict
While attempting to solve
the refugee issues in the
Syrian Crisis, the tension
became so immense that
the chairs began to won-
der whether they would
come up with a solution
by the end of the night.
Te delegate of Russia,
Raunaq Kwatra, in favor
of the Syrian government,
argued with the delegate
of United States, Shaurya
Dhingra, who decided to
help the Free Syrian Army
without asking the Syrian
government, because he
by Sadrish Pradhan, Yeon-
Sol Lee and JuHeon Suh
SC: Escalat-
ing Tensions
Prevent
Consensus
Cont. on page 2
Te MUN Times 2
In the midst of the Islam-
ic States threat to the world
economy, the Economic
and Social Council aggres-
sively debated the situation.
Many delegates, such as
Brazils Varun Pant, sug-
gested isolating all the
world Muslims and plac-
ing them in safe-zones,
to protect them against
communal hatred. Other
solutions included taking
defensive measures against
ISIS and designating troops
to protect every nation.
Shivam Khaitan, the
delegate of United States
of America, sponsored a
resolution to cope with the
looming crisis that request-
ed closing of all borders as
a safety measure from the
ISIS captured Islamic coun-
tries, and check[ing] im-
ports and exports from ISIS
captured Islamic state.
Co-sponsored by Russia
and China, and signed by
all members of ECOSOC,
this resolution easily passed
with a majority without any
amendments.
However, considering
the latest news updates,
the committee decided to
rethink the resolution, and
proposed a few amend-
ments. Speaking in favor
of the resolution, Rishi
Tomas, the delegate of
South Africa said, All the
Muslim countries in this
very room should know
that these measures are not
taken against them but for
them.
Tis remark was met
with acceptance from the
Muslim nations, who rep-
resented their consent in
their friendly votes.
Subsequently, the com-
mittee moved on to discuss
the efect of food shortage
and family planning on
world economy.
Te emergency crisis im-
mediately started of with
Saudi Arabia getting blamed
for funding the Islamic State,
ultimately passing a resolution
rejected by the General As-
sembly.
Tese allegations were de-
nied by the delegate of Saudi
Arabia, Akshat Singh Poras,
so the debate quickly moved
to the issue of what the Saudi
Arabian government has been
doing about the environmen-
tal impacts of burning oil
felds. Poras said that this issue
does need to be stopped but
had no plans for how to stop
the problem.
Many more solutions to the
problem were suggested, how-
ever, the chair felt that they
were not solutions that would
help in the immediate future.
Te delegate of China, Vineet
Peety, then suggested an im-
mediate solution of sending
military aid to protect the oil
felds.
Following the issue of
burned oil felds, the com-
mittee debated on the issue of
the environmental impact of
suicide bombings on the envi-
ronment. Te Delegate of the
Federation of Russia, Meha
Kaul, also stated that the Rus-
sian government was worried
about an increase of climate
refugees due to environmen-
tal changes caused by these
bombs.
Another update brought
news of the Yazzidi massacre.
Te delegate of the USA took
heat but the chair reminded
the committee that the United
States was there to solve the is-
sue not get attacked by other
delegates. Tis however did
not stop the delegate of Ger-
many, Sheikh Safwan, from at-
tacking the US even more.
More updates did not phase
the assembly and they quickly
went into un-moderated cau-
cus to begin drafing the reso-
lution.
Te resolution suggested
better international security,
metal detectors in countries
and public awareness of the
issue to have safety and ad-
dressed the oil pipeline issue.
Te committee believed
that if these policies could be
enforced it would lead to less
terrorist attacks that harm
the environment. Tere was
a unanimous approval of this
resolution.
ECOSOC Responds to
Global Terror Treat
UNEP Blames World
Powers for Crisis
by Manvi Seth and Ishika Guha by Donald Blank
Cont. from page 1
was skeptical of the Syrian
governments legitimacy.
Te Delegate of Luxem-
burg, Kartik Rajpal, agreed
to this and noted that the
problem will not be solved
until it is agreed that the
government of Syria is not
legitimate; that will be the
only way to stop the war.
Although no consensus
was reached to help the Syr-
ian refugees, the delegates
of the Security Council had
no choice but to respond to
the emergency crisis. Te
Security Council kept their
calmness afer the terror-
ist video was shown. Te
delegate of France, Mou-
mita Chowdhary, spoke up
for the frst time by stating
peace talks are not possible
with the terrorists. Both the
USAs resolution (artfully
named Bye-Bye Bakar), and
the Russian Federations
resolution were double-ve-
toed and did not pass.
Attempting to merge
solutions, the delegates of
both parties spurred into
action and the council
came out with a resolution
for the frst time. Te USA
and the Russian Federation
stated that the UN should
take immediate action and
send military troops to
the Syrian Arab Republic.
Most delegates were fully
engaged as co-sponsors for
the resolution, and it passed
unanimously.
Te peace, however, did
not continue as the USAs
missile killed thousands of
innocent civilians.
USA was able to turn the
tables around afer Kwatra
was suspended for writing
inappropriate contents via
twitter. Tere are no rights
for other delegates to pros-
ecute USA for such mis-
takes he stated. Although
the chairs continuously
ofered up ideas to add to
the resolution, only minor
amendments were made
and it unanimously passed
in the general assembly.