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Awards!
Apr 1st
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
“We like merges”
Apr 1st
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 course we started to look out for these working groups we were working together the day before and continued to discuss our positions and how we could work everything into a few sentences. We were successfully able to implement our own goals in a working group and eagerly sponsored the whole working paper. We also signed some other working papers which were in line with our own goals. We discovered that a huge amount of working papers somehow appeared and since 18 working papers were nice, but way too many to work with, the Chairs kindly urged us to merge similar working papers. Our own working paper was merged with five other similar working papers at the end of the day. This provided an opportunity for us since we were able to form a much larger group of states and which proved to be an advantage on Wednesday. On this day we further improved and merged our working papers till we got 10 draft resolutions on the floor. Only five of them were approved as resolutions, but it was the one China sponsored which achieved the most in-favor-votes. We helped to write a very constructive and innovative resolution and are very confident for the next day, when the General Assembly Plenary will decide about our resolutions.
DONE!!!!!
Apr 1st
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 Werk. Motiviert, dass es heute für die Meisten von uns der letzte Konferenztag sein würde, wurden alle Workingpaper mit Hochdruck überarbeitet, verbessert oder korrigiert. So konnten wir beispielsweise in der General Assembly First (GA 1st) nach einem sehr arbeitsintensiven und vor allem nervenaufreibendem Vormittag “unser” Workingpaper einreichen. Nach Anweisung der Komiteeleitung mussten wir unser Paper, welches wir mit den P-5 Ländern, Indien und Brazilien in den letzten Tagen erarbeitet haben, mit einigen asiatiaschen Ländern zusammenfügen und ergänzen. Nach einer gefühlten Ewigkeit und endlosem Wartem wurden schließlich 8 Workingpaper zur Abstimmung freigegeben. … Dennoch gab es leider kein schnelles Ende. Der Voting-Prozess sollte sich nämlich noch als eine nervliche Herausforderung darstellen. Aber das Warten, die Arbeit und all die Geduld wurde nach einem weiterem 8 Stunden Tag belohnt….denn “unsere” Draft-Resolution wurde schließlich als Resolution angenommen. Ein voller Erfolg!!!! Auch die anderen Komitees konnten erfolgreich ihren letzten Konferenztag beenden und den Abend, im Gegensatz zu den vergangenden Tagen, gemütlich ausklingen lassen.
Nina
Meltdown Tuesday
Mar 31st
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 status quo.
Currently the meeting is suspended due to expert lectures but that does not mean that we are not working on input for the committee.
We have experienced heavy rainfall since yesterday night. The streets have turned into rivers and umbrella prices are skyrocketing.
The real work begins…
Mar 30th
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.
In our committee sessions we soon started to present our working paper and involved ourselves in other delegation’s working papers since we wanted to improve them. We heard lots of interesting ideas and found, that our own position paper covered most thoughts. Nevertheless we learnt a lot from all other delegations and were sometimes quite amazed about how different views could be.
Our committee work was only interrupted by the official opening ceremony which unfortunately wasn’t located at the United Nations Building due to repair work. Therefore the opening ceremony had to take place in the Sheraton Hotel, but somehow the organizers were able to fit around 2500 delegates in a conference room. To avoid injuries and fatalities we were lined up and brought to our seats in a very formal and organized way, but it helped a lot to start the ceremony in time. The opening ceremony was interesting since some real diplomats gave thoughtful speeches and encouraged us to just do more for our own committee and country. But with only one hour the opening ceremony was over a little too soon.
Let’s see how China will be able to put its position in the final resolution. The next two days will be decisive.
