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China was announced to receive two Awards at World’s largest MUN: we are recognized for our Outstanding Position Papers and for our committee work (Honorable Mention). I am posting this from GA Plenary Hall at UN Headquarters. Nils
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After a rather short night we had to get up very early to be on time to our first session on Tuesday. This session started as always with a 20-minute long roll call, since the Third Committee of the General Assembly consists of all member states and each country is called at this point. Of [...]
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Kaum zu glauben, aber nach vier unglaublich anstrengen Tagen ist die meiste Arbeit geschafft. Bis auf die großen Komitees, wie die General Assembly , der Sicherheitsrat und der ECOSOC haben alle Komitees heute die NMUN 2010 erfolgreich beendet. Nach dem gestrigen “melting down Tuesday”, ging es heute Morgen, wiedereinmal nach einer kurzen Nacht, weiter ans [...]
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Today sessions continued in the Security Council Working Group Sadly the proposals often replicate existing treaties such as the Programme of Action or the Firearms Treaty and as such are unacceptable for us. China is currently not working extensively with any groups in the Council as the position of China is quite clearly oriented towards stability and keeping [...]
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Our Monday started quite comfortable, but the Chinese delegation for the third General Assembly started early to write a working paper, in order to improve our cooperation with our fellow delegates in this committee. We further outlined China’s position on education and thought of new and innovating ways to implement a global standard of education. [...]
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Der zweite Tag der Konferenz began wesentlich ruhiger und gemütlicher als er enden wird……..da er auch um 24 Uhr für einige von uns noch mit einer Sonderschicht weiter gehen wird. Da die offiziellen Sessions erst um 14 Uhr begonnen haben, konnten wir den Vormittag nutzen, um noch einmal ausreichend Schlaf zu bekommen, uns vorzubereiten und [...]
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Sadly recognizing, the NMUN Opening Ceremony is not taking place at UN Headquarters this year. somehow these 2500 delegates have to fit into the Metropolitan Ballroom in the Sheraton Hotel. Video after the break
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Using the last few hours of free time that we had left, we visited the American Museum of Natural History. It was not quite as amazing as often presented but had solid exhibitions full of dinosaurs, dead animals, both alive and extinct, and different human peoples. Some exhibitions on biodiversity were taglined with “Extinction is [...]
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Sunday, the day the NMUN kicked off! But at first I met with Sara, my committee partner, to coordinate the strategy of our committee. We discussed which agenda we want to take first and what kind of ideas we could implement in a possible resolution. Of course the first committee session started as late as [...]
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Thursday was more relaxed compared to Wednesday, though the weather was only getting worse by the hour. We scheduled two meetings at the same time: one for 10 people at the ARD and the other for 22 people at the ZDF offices (ARD and ZDF are german television and radio stations). We subdivided the group [...]
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