From: Iraq Subject: Iraq s reconstruction Date: March 29, 2011 Recognizing that Iraq has been in a continuous state of war since the Baath party came to power in 1969, Noting that NPA ( Norwegian People s Aid) is not neutral and impartial but is consistent in its solidarity of how it helps or gains impact on society, Seeing that the NPA has been working in the Kurdish areas of Northern Iraq since 1995, beginning with the rehabilitation and demining of Iraq a goal of bringing more opportunity to people of Iraq is necessary rather than an outside party, Predicting that Iraq being without a leader will cause chaos the NPA will not be able to help Iraq achieve democracy this goal, Believing the various arrangements put in place since 1996 to mitigate the impact of sanctions greatly appear to improved conditions for the majority of the population, Calls for: 1. Recommends de-baathication which not only limits to those linked to the Baath party but all Iraqi citizens being taught to question authority; 2. Requests the addition of a Iraqi ally to further promote democracy; 3. Urges the U.S. to help further progress this process: a. By creating a vote from the permanent members to agree, b. The nation assembly to decide how everything should be assessed.
From: Israel Subject: The Punishment of Genocide Bearing in mind the definition of genocide constructed in 1948 under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, or Resolution 260(III), Noting that Resolution 260(III) has done little to help the prevention of genocide, Emphasizing that genocide continues to be a problem in areas such as Darfur, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma, and Somalia, Alarmed by that as recent as 2008 nearly 5,000 people were dying each month in Darfur, Recognizing that problems such as, The Genocide Intervention Program, are committed to ending genocide through spreading genocide awareness, Confident that multilateral action addressing genocide will aid in the prevention of these deplorable crimes, 1. Requests that Member Nations support the Genocide Intervention Program by raising funds to donate to the program, or informing citizens of the program s plan to stop genocide; 2. Calls upon the United Nations to develop an education program, and collect educational material for the prevention of genocide; 3. Strongly affirms the need for every nation to find the political will to stop genocide, and to educate their people on the deplorable crimes of genocide; 4. Encourages the United Nations to add new articles to define the punishment of genocide as: a. Immediate arrest of all parties or persons accused of committing the crime of genocide by local authorities or officers of the country where genocide occurs, b. An immediate trial of all accused persons or groups at the International Court of Justice, c. All persons or parties convicted of genocide to be sentenced to death by hanging, electric chair, firing squad, or lethal injection, or life in prison, d. The punishment of death to be in a timely manner with the execution occurring as late as one week after the trial; 5. Designates that all Member Nations to support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it applies to genocide, and strictly enforce articles 4, 5, and 6 of Resolution 260(III).
From: Japan Subject: International Nuclear Energy Regulation Noting with deep concern that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the only body that can produce binding regulations on international energy, Deeply conscious of the potential environmental risks to a society if nuclear use is unregulated, Taking into consideration past nuclear crisis such as Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island, 1. Encourages Member States to fully encourage more effort to enforcing all IAEA s policies; 2. Expresses its hope to have all members of the United Nations become a member of the IAEA in order to save money on potential nuclear emergencies and to ensure the safety of the inhabitants in each Member State; 3. Recommends the creation of a protocol about nuclear energy similar to the Kyoto and the Montreal Protocols focusing on: a. The standards that Member States to enforce nuclear energy and safety, b. The procedures that Member States must take to ensure that the aforementioned standards are upheld, c. The empowerment of the IAEA s jurisdiction or establishing more local committees on the regulation of international nuclear energy standards; 4. Declares that each state should put more effort and funding into nuclear energy awareness, regulation, and risk prevention.
From: Qatar Subject: The state of the Strait of Hormuz Alarmed by the threat by Iran to blockade the Strait of Hormuz from further use from any other country, Noting with deep concern that if the blockade is put into place the State of Qatar will have to initiate an emergency shutdown of its vast LNG (liquefied natural gas) facilities, Emphasizing that Qatar is the number one exporter in the world of liquefied natural gas and if the Strait of Hormuz is closed, it has no alternate export route for its natural gas, Taking into account that the Strait of Hormuz is where one-fifth of the world s traded crude is transported and if it is closed, several counties where it a primary resource in daily life will be deprived of natural gas, Calls for: 1. Urges the Legal Committee to come to a decision as to Whether Iran has the right to cut off the use of the Strait of Hormuz to other countries; 2. Draws attention to why Iran wants to close the Strait; 3. Recommends that this committee define Iran s borders and decide whether or not any State has full rights to control the Strait of Hormuz; 4. Recommends aid to natural gas exporting countries to explore alternate routes of transportation for exports; 5. Encourages the improvement of patrol at sea, as to improve the conditions of the Strait so it is not overused and abused; 6. Further Recommends a select few international waterways be set aside for public use so that commerce may flow freely with consideration to: a. Choose some of the most populated waterways that are used for exporting and importing goods, b. Place patrols and regulators at sea to manage the quality of these waterways. c. Allow public use so that issue such as this one may be avoided in the future.
From: Tajikistan Subject: Internet Content Recognizing that according to the United Nations Charter Article 1, Section 1, all nations have the right to domestic sovereignty, Noting that the UN Security Council has affirmed the right under the United Nations Charter Article 2, Section 1, Understanding that nation s control of media and communications such as the internet are theirs alone to maintain as expressed in the United Nations Charter Article 2, Section 7, Confident that the community of nations wishes to maintain peace and stability among its citizens, Assured that nations are aware of an concerned about the establishing capabilities of the internet that may be used inappropriately against individuals, organizations, and nations, 1. Encourages individual sovereign nations to establish internet regulations that each nation determines is appropriate based on its cultural, political, and legal traditions; 2. Affirms that nations have the right to monitor, regulate, and withhold internet access and any other media format that violates a country s cultural, political, a and legal traditions; 3. Recommends that nations and corporations be exempted from punitive measures such as international sanctions or threat of persecution due to aid in internet regulation for another nation; 4. Recognizes that governments have the right to limit and control bandwidth speed to websites known to allow illegal threat of intellectual property or involved in activity that would otherwise threaten national security; 5. Encourages all nations to respect the rights of governments to regulate speech that may destabilize the peace and security of a nation.
From: Argentine Republic Subject: Oil Exploration near the Falkland Islands Deeply concerned by the United Kingdom s blatant disregard for Argentine sovereignty in the Falkland Islands, Guided by the knowledge that reserves of petroleum have been recently discovered around the vicinity of the Falkland Islands and that the United Kingdom has authorized the exploitation of such resources by national entities, Further deploring that the imperialist United Kingdom only granted citizenship rights to the Falkland Islanders after the Falklands Wars, 1. Demands the immediate withdrawal of all British commercial entities involved in the extraction or exploration of petroleum-based resources in the Falkland Islands region; 2. Strongly urges the United Nations and the legal committee to investigate the validity of British claims on the Falkland Islands; 3. Encourages the decolonized nations of the world to stand in solidarity with the Argentine Republic against the economic imperialism of the United Kingdom.
From: Brazil Subject: Enhancing the Efficiency and Credibility of United Nations Sanctions Alarmed that sanctions imposed on countries by the Security Council are poorly designed and enforced, Recognizes that many experts see the spotty record of United Nations sanctions as one of the main indicators that the organization is not effective, Acknowledges that sanctions such as the Iraq operations in the 1990 s and the various efforts during African civil wars around the same time did not improve the situations in those countries, and may have even worsened them, Calls attention to the shift in policy by the Security Council following those sanctions to target individual sectors and industries, instead of using comprehensive sanctions, Applauds the sanctions in the past that have been very effective, such as the sanctions against Yugoslavia to bring down the Milosevic regime, Asserts that sanctions can be a very effective tool for stabilizing international relations if designed and executed correctly, Calls for: 1. Requests that the Security Council looks towards changing the way it imposes sanctions, by observing the components of sanctions that were successful in the past; 2. Mandates that the Security Council try to complete smaller tasks with their sanctions, e.g. not making the goal of the sanctions to overthrow an entire regime; 3. Asks that the Security Council not allow much smaller nations to impose sanctions on large and powerful nations; 4. Calls for any sanctions imposed to be as short as possible; 5. Recommends that the Security Council look closely at how differences in approach to potentially sanctioned countries by nations represented in the Security Council may undermine the sanctions effectiveness, and asks that the Security Council make serious efforts to overcome these differences when designing sanctions; 6. Encourages countries who feel as though it is necessary to impose a sanction against another country to do a serious evaluation of how the sanction will affect that country economically, and then decide if it is worth the resources to impose the sanction.
From: Colombia Subject: Illegal Armed Groups of Colombia Affirming that there is an ongoing problem with illegal paramilitary groups throughout Colombia, Deeply regretting that continuous conflicts between these groups and the Colombian government have caused much damage to the economy, Deeply disturbed by the fact that numerous military ordeals have become so prominent as to force millions of people from their homes and into neighboring countries, Expressing its appreciation that The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has continued to aid with refugees fleeing the country, Noting with concern that groups such as The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People s Army (FARC EP) are great contributors to these ongoing conflicts, 1. Requests support, through military forces, from the United Nations to regulate and attempt to put an end to the paramilitary organizations; 2. Asks for cooperation of the Security Council to aid in and make possible the eradication of paramilitary organizations; 3. Recommends further support from the UNHCR and the UN to help with the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP s) and other refugees; 4. Further requests cooperation of neighboring countries with IDP s and refugees.
To: Legal From: Georgia Subject: Resolving the Kuril Islands Dispute Recognizing that Japan renounced its claims to the Kuril Islands in the 1951 San Francisco Treaty, Bearing in Mind that Russia did not sign the aforementioned San Francisco Treaty, Alarmed that Russia claims the Kuril Islands and the islands of Kunashiri, Etorofu, and Shikotan as their territory, Emphasizing that the islands of Kunashiri, Etorofu, and Shikotan, as well as the Hamobai rocks are not included in the Kuril Islands, that, Japan did not renounce claims to these northern territories and they should remain justly under the jurisdiction of Japan, Declaring that Russia has not the authority to claim these islands, Affirming that the international community should not allow Russia to continue to pursue land under the jurisdiction of other countries, Seeking to resolve the lingering dispute once and for all, Calls for: 1. Recognizes the islands of Kunashari, Etorofu, and Shikotan, as well as the Hamobai rocks as territory under Japanese control; 2. Further reminds the international community that Russia never signed the San Francisco Treaty recognizing Japanese cession of the Kuril Islands; 3. Recommends the conditions set by the San Francisco treaty be renegotiated; 4. Further resolves that Russia be denied claim of the Kuril Islands.
From: Islamic Republic of Iran Subject: Drones operated over Iranian soil by the United States of America Recognizing that Iran is a sovereign nation with a right to its own domestic airspace, Noting that historically western imperial powers have been allowed to trespass on other nations domestic airspace, Seeing that the American government has received no condemnation from the legal committee, Predicting that many of the United Nation s members will be affected by future surveillance drone programs, Believing that the legal committee should forcefully condemn illegal surveillance drone programs conducted by the United States, 1. Recommends that the Legal Committee issue a strong written and verbal condemnation of the American drone program in all affected countries; 2. Requests that the Legal Committee issue a strong written condemnation of the illegal, unauthorized American drone program s activities in Iran; 3. Further requests that the Legal Committee request that future captured drones be submitted to an agency of the United Nations for thorough inspection; 4. Urges that the issue of illegal drone programs be dealt with by the members of the Legal Committee.