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Friday, May 24, 2013

International Dinner: Photo Report

Yesterday we were certainly not hungry. We attended the international dinner, which was a rich mixture of delicious dishes from all around the world. We have to say - the delegates really outdid themselves! And the POs and journalists too.  We have a photo and a video report (the latter is really short though - it was very loud so most of the videos are useless, but we think that this one shows the atmosphere really nicely!). Click HERE...

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Security Council Remains in 20th Century

Last gathering in the series of General Assembly sessions took place last thursday on 16th May 2013 at Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Delegates concluded round of sessions with a discussion and voting on a topic of Security Council for the 21st century. Majority of countries were present and active in sharing their opinion and finding possible solution. Two draft resolution were introduced during the session, however none...

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Something to make your day

...from Yours Truly. ;-)  We heard from a very reliable source that the journalists and P.O.'s have been attending dance lessons?! So we gathered our all intelligence services to dig out this video they've been making. Enjoy it! We just hope the P.O.'s don't chase and kill us after this. :-P Click HERE to see it....

Monday, May 20, 2013

Italy and India comments after the rejection of both draft resolutions

On thursday, 16th May 2013 last General Assembly session was taking place at Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. The discussed topic was reform of Security Council for 21st century. Before the session, presiding officers received two draft resolutions that were sponsored by two different groups of countries. First proposal was written by few Uniting for Consensus members and the second solution was proposed by African and G4 group states. Both of the documents did not achieve required majority of two thirds of votes and they were not accepted. After...

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Forced migration: Reality vs. simulation

AN INSIGHT INTO THE IMPLEMENTATION We are slowly coming to an end of the simulation and while we already did an analysis on the adopted resolution against forced migrations and also collected some responses of the delegates right after the GA session, there have been some talks about implementing the resolution. Namely, the US and UK delegations decided to organize an event to prove their determination regarding the implementation of the resolution,...

"Together for Syrian Refugees" - Video & Photo Report

On Wednesday, 15th of May, we attended a fundraising event called "Together for Syrian Refugees". It was organized by the delegations of US and UK - they were collecting donations, which will be donated to UNHCR's Syrian crisis urgent appeal. Below you'll find photos from the event and a video in which you can listen to some speeches and impressions. If you haven't watched it yet, you can also see the interview that we did with the organizers one...