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Security
Council Welcome to UNYMUN 2003 and the Security Council! The Security Council is the most powerful body of the UN. The committee at UNIMUN will be run Harvard style and will be a crisis committee. This means you will have to react to actual fictitious events as they happen, so all delegates need to be thoroughly versed in their countries’ policy. Bring a copy of your position paper (one page single spaced maximum length) to the conference on April 26, 2003. Now that you know that, time to introduce the chairs: I’m Zach Barasz. I have been involved in MUN for four years. I only want to say that this should be an amazing committee this year, and it will be made even better with your enthusiasm. Hi, my name is Daniel Tartakoff. I am a first time chair, and am anxiously awaiting this promisingly insightful and invigorating conference! I have been in the MUN club for a few years, and in that time, had many great MUN experiences! I would like to end this saying that I hope that this conference will top my list of top ten MUN experiences, I know we can do it! MUN rocks my world like no other.
Your topic will be… The China – Russia Border Dispute:
As recently
as 1969, these two nations have fought over the 4,280-kilometer (2,670-mile)-long eastern
frontier, from Mongolia to the Tumen River near the Sea of Japan. However the dispute has been going on for over 300
years, fueled by the Opium Wars and the Treaty of Aigun in the 19th Century. A
great deal of attention has also been placed on islands in the Amur, Ussuri and Argun rivers. In the latter part of the
1990’s agreements were made between Jiang and Yeltsin, the leaders of the two
nations. The treaties promised increased trade, and ended, or at least assumedly, the
border disputes that had been occurring for over three centuries. This is only a synopsis
of the history, and more detailed and nation-specific research is necessary. Remember,
this is a crisis committee, so the course of debate may wander slightly, so be prepared to
deal with related issues. |
