KLMUN 2012: SC

Delegate from Nexus include:

Kai Song> Bosnia-Herzegovina

What happened?

The First Day

I was quite nervous as I stepped into the prim, proper meeting room which was quickly filled with 14 other confident delegates.  This was the first time for me to attend a Security Council meeting and I knew that it might be a bumpy road ahead.  

  



The meeting started off with roll calls, and each of us made a short introduction about ourselves before continuing with our respective opening speeches.  The SC is very small and we managed to finish all our opening speeches soon *luckily*.  



Later, we had to collaborate with other delegates to come up with resolutions to solve the crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic.  As expected, the delegate of USA decided to be the main submitter of the resolution to prevent further human rights violation of the Syrian civilians. But out of the blue, USSR actually agreed with the resolution.  



My heart sunk.  I always thought that SC would be fill with intense and vigorous debates, with the USA and USSR trying their best to shoot each other down.  However, since both of them contributed to the resolution, I doubted that there would be interesting debates tomorrow.
~Written by Kai Song~ 

 

Kai Song discussing with the other delegates!

The Second Day

Today, we debated on the resolution on the Situation in Syria.  Different from other councils, we do not debate the resolution as a whole, but instead clause by clause.  In other councils, I will be torn apart occasionally whether to vote for or against the resolution when there are some concise, practical clauses in the resolution but some others are vague and unrealistic.  However, the way the resolution is debated in security council solved this problem instantly.  The resolution produced in the end would be the essence of the discussion. 

The debate started quite slow, but when the delegate of Syria was brought in, it really kicked off the intensity in security council.  And from then onwards, it was enjoyable. 

Although we passed the resolution, the delegate of China and Russian Federation vetoed it since it infringed national sovereignty and was against the UN Charter.  Despite the fact that it was sort of disappointing, since all our efforts were virtually wasted, I still optimistically thought that the votes do not actually matter, but instead the process of debating and getting to that point should always be the most memorable experience. 

~Written by Kai Song~

 

Kai Song is the delegate of Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Kai Song voting for the resolution/clause 

The Third Day

We got our emergency topic yesterday.  

The state of Israel has issued an ultimatum to the Islamic Republic of Iran stating that Iran is to terminate its nuclear programme within the space of 24 hours or a state of war will exist between the 2 nations.  

*A bunch of stuff* 

The issue has been brought before the UNSC as it poses an imminent threat of the United Nations 

We had to come up with solutions immediately for this problem that would threaten world peace and security.  Since I was a delegate of Bosnia-Herzegovina, I was pro-Iran but could not condemn Israel as well as the country would like to maintain good relationship with the EU.   As a co-submitter, we came up with a resolution that was slightly neutral and the solutions were only to prevent war.  

We had 2 resolutions on this issue today but they were both similar.  Due to certain reasons, the debate wasn't as fiery as yesterday, but it also brought me more chances of speaking.  I made about 4 speeches and a few POIs.  And it was enjoyable!  

The first resolution passed overwhelmingly and since the second resolution was similar, it passed unanimously as well.