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Belarusian Model United Nations

April13

2011

5 yearanniversary

edition

B – busy, bee, beautiful, bestE – easy, education, excellent, elegant, exciting, essentialL – language, little, lovely, legal, love, logicalA – ambassador, amusing, ambitions, amazing, awesomeM – music, minister, modern, magic, multilingual, marvelous, memorableU – unique, ultra, unison, universal, usefulN – national, nice, necessary, non-stop

Committees’ DiariesMonday, as we know, is a difficult day. Especially if you’re intellectual and have to solve serious problems...

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Resolution:To WriteOr NotTo Write?

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What is BELAMUN for you?If you ask me, what is BELAMUN, I can tell you,

that BELAMUN is Belarusian Model of United Na-tions. But this definition can’t reveal the atmos-phere of the BELAMUN conferences. I asked the del-egates of BELAMUN High-School Conference 2011 to define all the letters in the main word.

• Ann Boguminskaya

Some tips about writing a resolution

2 April 13, 2011 IN PERSON

Tell Me Who I AmIs it important for the members of Secretariat to know each other well? They say yes. But let’s see how they really do. Some questions and answers from Angelica Belanovskaya, President of the General Assembly and Ivan Makarov, Deputy President of the General Assembly.

Angelica:1. How many foreign languages do you

speak? Two: English and German. And sign language, understandable only in BE-LAMUN team. Ivan: 2: German, English.

2. Your favourite TV-series? I am pressed for time, just news and sometimes favourite movies to relax.

Ivan: Gossip Girl? Big Bang Theory? Santa Barabara?

3. Your favourite drink? A cup of green tea with mint. Ivan: Tea.

4. How do you prefer to cope with stress and anxiety? A cup of green tea with mint? Well, actually, keeping cool is the best way not to be acquainted with stress and anxiety.

Ivan: Drink coffee, listen to music, hang out with friends.

5. What do you like and hate most of all about BELAMUN? I like the feeling of satisfaction and dislike... I belive it’s the antonym for BELAMUN.

Ivan: Hates: quarrels and things both-ering her at the BELAMUN time. Likes: atmosphere.

Ivan:1. Your favourite superhero?Gambit from X-men. Angelica: Superhero? Without a shad-

ow of a doubt, superman!2. Your favourite country?Germany.Angelica: May I call Amsterdam a lit-

tle country, where dreams come true?)3. Your favourite sports? Beerball. Angelica: During BELAMUN prepa-

rations he’s an excellent sprinter at a dis-tance from Masherova avenue to Nemiga)

4. How many hours do you sleep dur-ing BELAMUN? 3 a day

Angelica: Does he sleep at all during BELAMUN? He’s a real superman rush-ing to help!

5. What do you like and hate most of all about BELAMUN? I hate all other staff except BELAMUN bothering me during BELAMUN. I like voyage, I like voyage…

Angelica: Combining business with pleasure, that is what our amazing team likes most of all.

Friends,At the Opening Ceremony I spoke

about the memories all BELAMUNs starting with 2007 brought into my life. And I asked the question what kind of memories this BELAMUN would leave in our lives.

And nobody could even imagine that one of the days of our conference will be held at the time of the tragedy that shook our city and minds of the people.

Now I know and hope that you un-derstand that in any case that this trag-edy make us much closer and more tolerant and appreciating towards our lives. Should I say that our life is frag-ile and need more attention from our side!? There is no need in it as all of us are adults and understand it.

I just want to say thank you for understanding and being with us, for acting cowardless, for dedication to MUN movement and for belief that our world will turn to the better.

Thank you and be blessed!

Yours,Olga Khabibulina

WHICH COMMITTEE ATBELAMUN 2011

THIS YEARIS THE BEST?

• SG, PGA and Team (29%)

• Human Rights Council (14%)

• Economic and FinancialCommittee (17%)

• Special Political and Decoloniza-tion Committee (15%)

• Security Council (8%)

• Environmental Commission (14%)

Palls

April 13, 2011 3 IN PERSON

Andrei Malashevich: One Of the Best Ways to Change the WorldAndrei Malashevich, the Secretary General of Belamun, was so busy during the conference, that we could find him only by telephone. In the first day of the conference he was at school 154, where Economic and Financial and Environmental Committees were situated.

Despite of his business he answered some questions:

-What are your impressions about first day of Belamun?

- My impressions are usu-al. Good, interesting confer-ence, new participants, fresh ideas.

- Is it differing from Student Conference?

- Yes, of course, it differs a lot, because the level of dele-gates preparation and the ideas that delegates propose are ab-solutely different. I don’t think that the High School Confer-

ence is the same with a Stu-dents one.

- Is it difficult to manage with duties of Secretary Gen-eral?

- (with a smile in his voice) Yes, it is rather difficult be-cause you have to be every-where, you have to do almost everything. Everyone wants something from you. The preparation process was very hard. But of course we have got our organization team and it is not so difficult, as it could be.

- As we know from inter-view with Ban Ki-moon (Gen-eral Secretary of UN), he thinks that the reform of the organization is needed. He said: “The reform of the Unit-ed Nations is very necessary, so that the UN can be trusted and gain confidence from the member states. The UN should be reborn to be more effective and efficient because it plays a leading role in the inter-national community to bring peace, security and develop-ment, and to protect human

rights throughout the world.” What do you think about this question?

- My personal opinion is that the organization should be reformed and it should be done in the nearest future. There are a lot of problems there and I think that they need some changes in the structure of UN. The United Nations is a very important universal glo-bal organization, the family of nations, and it should be made better and better. It is one of the best ways to change our world.

• Vitalina Lebedeva, Veronika Zheshko

4 April 13, 2011 USEFUL TIPS

Resolution: To WriteOr Not To Write?William Shakespeare would say “that is the question”. But our today’s response is: certainly write! A knotty problem is how to write it. Being a deep-rooted botanist and gulping down abstruse books isn’t our variant. That’s why put it out of your heads. The only way out for any true participant of Belamun is to be creative and original while writing a resolution and changing the world.

STEP 1:Remember famous people

Risk-takers or followers of Isaac Newton are advised to find an apple orchard, sit un-der one of the trees and wait for an apple to fall on their head.

Painful, but efficient. Sup-porters of Archimedes are recommended to take a bath. After this pleasant procedure the world will hear another “EUREKA!”.

Sleepyheads or adherents of Mendeleev are to go to bed, embrace a pillow and dream of a gorgeous resolution.

STEP 2:The “on” position of your

brainsToday all-powerful Internet

hands necessary information on a silver platter. Not a dog, but Google is the best friend of a man. The key to success is your brain. So, turn it on and use modern techniques of gen-erating ideas.

Brainstorming• maximum ideas per mini-

mum of time;• combination of good ideas

to create the best one. It’s like “1+1=3”.

Mind mapping

• a key word, problem, idea plus associated concepts around it;

• use symbols, codes, col-ours.

Thinking outside the box• think unconventionally

and from a new perspective. Reinvent the wheel. Why not?

Beginner’s mind• beginners are lucky, aren’t

they? So, forget about precon-ceptions and welcome eager-ness and openness. In the be-ginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind there are few. Just prove it.

STEP 3:old Belamun’s stagers are

taking the floorOlga Khabibulina, BELA-

MUN Director: “You can even avoid the process of writing a resolution. But it is important to study the issue very careful-ly. And the key moment is to have a hot green tea with mint and honey next to you. That is my real inspiration!!!”

Ivan Makarov, Deputy President of the General As-sembly: “Connect on the Inter-net with a person who has cut his teeth on this issue. Some “nice” words from him – and you’ll find out as many solu-tions as UN can only imagine. But don’t overdo.”

Maria Ugolnik, Chair of Human Rights Council: “You will need a lot of coffee and Internet because you’ll have to spend lots of time while searching for the necessary in-formation. And also you should feel how important the issue is and how important YOU are because only we can help the world to become better.”

Anton Dudko, Ukrani-an participant of Belamun Student Conference: “Use clauses, subclauses and sub-subclauses… The more, the merrier. Add catching adver-tising statements and other countries will “buy” your res-olution. Don’t forget about a facing page and bibliography.”

STEP 4: Last but not the least

Desperate times demand for reckless deeds. If all the previous steps have failed to be a success, we still have something for a rainy day. No cheating, only manual dexterity. The night before the judgement day put your magnificent resolution under the pillow or leave it on the windowsill to be charged with cosmic energy. One more trick is to buy a pair of common socks and turn them into lucky socks. And finally don’t forget to pray to Belamun’s spirits.

Take everything easy and enjoy Belamun!!!

• Vera Podosinovik, Kate Zhgirovskaya

April 13, 2011 5 ON THE SPOT

Special Political and Decolanization

Security CouncilMonday, as we know, is a difficult day. Especially if you’re intellectual and have to solve serious problems. The life of prospective diplomats hardly can be called a piece of cake. Make sure of it yourselves.

Before 10 a.m.Monday, the 11th of April,

has begun too early. On the threshold of a great day full of fruitful debates honorable del-egates were hurry to start dis-cussions. But the first obstacle of this day was to find Gymna-sium 146, which has become the temporary headquarter of Special Political and Decolo-nization Committee.

10 a.m.Some lessons of entertain-

ing geography (passers-by were so courteous to help) and finally everyone has success-fully reached the destination. The process has got off the ground. The show was run by Natasha Kotikova and Olga Smirnova - open-minded, ge-nerous in giving help and al-ways smiling chairs of GA1.

Both newly-made and ex-perienced action-takers and opinion-makers introduced themselves to take the strain off and be in tune for good mood.

11 a.m.After an hour of draft reso-

lutions discussion two groups have been formed. It became the first stage of “thought thrives on conflict” process.

The participants were so in-volved in Monday lobbing that it seemed almost impossible to drag them away from clauses. “For example”, “I consider”, “It’s necessary” filled the au-ditorium and turned it into a beehive. It’s not unusual be-cause our prospective diplo-mats had their shoulders to the collar like real bees. And they deserved to have a rest.

12.50 a.m. In order not to knot convo-

lutions the chairs and adminis-trative staff suggested the par-ticipants to knot themselves. It was a game resembling the children’s one “Babushkiny nitki”.

13 p.m.The delicious dinner gave

the participants the second breath. Satisfied and pleased, boys and girls got up to their neck in the saving of the world.

14 p.m.-16 p.m. (changing the location)

Five minutes on foot - and the headquarter of Security Council in Gymnasium 12 has welcomed us. They couldn’t do without surprises: the most serious committee this year is leaded by four young ladies – the chairs Ann Grigorian and Marina Nelipovich and administrative staff. Their weapon is high heels, short skirts and sharp tongues)

From the first minutes the most earnest delegates of BELAMUN took the bull by the horns. The hot discussion seemed to never end. So did the waterfalls of arguments and points of information. The atmosphere was tensing. For goodness sake it didn’t come to blows. In any case the resolution is going to be superb.

It is said that the most dif-ficult thing is to start. Without any doubt the first working day of BELAMUN HIGH-SCHOOL CONFERENCE 2011 has started successfully. Carry on! And don’t forget to eat porridge for breakfast)

• Vera Podosinovik, Kate Zhgirovskaya

6 April 13, 2011 ON THE SPOT

Human Rights CouncilFinding means to protect journalistsin times of armed conflicts – that is how the agenda of Hu-man Rights Council sounds this year.

More than twenty countries gathered to discuss measures directing to protect the cor-respondents who are sent to trouble spots. For most of the delegates it is the first time of participating in MUN that’s why at first there were some difficulties in the committee but the Chairs willingly ex-plained all the rules of proce-dure and the work started.

At once several countries stood out: Switzerland, Slo-

vakia, Azerbaijan and Ja-pan tended to express their opinions as clear as possible. Points passed one by one as the delegates weren’t very active but… After dinner the situation changed. The discus-sion took another turn! Dis-putes became sharper, ques-tions – more provocative and on the whole the real debates began! Special attention was paid to suggestion proposed by the delegate of Gabon

who recommended making special uniforms for journal-ists. And thought Chile was trying to persuade the House that it wouldn’t defend them from sex violence (!) the point passed.

Another point that caused serious discussion was from Republic of Korea that called for using a special kind of traumatic weapon by jour-nalists to protect themselves against potential threat. What

exactly did the delegate mean? Pepper powder, for example! Unfortunately this non-ordi-nary solution didn’t engender confidence in the delegates that’s why it was the first point out of eight that didn’t passed.

That was the 1st day of of-ficial debates in HRC. Hope that the 2nd day will be even more fruitful and the delegates will be more confident as they already have some experience from yesterday!

• Anna Parkhanovich

April 13, 2011 7 ON THE SPOT

Environmental Commission

Some people are sure that researching and cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most important prob-lem nowadays, and be ready to become an ardent protector of nature, because they are able to persuade anyone in it=) For example, the delegate of France was so inspired and ready for action that tried to introduce himself out of turn several times. The discussion was held without hot arguing thanks to quite and hospita-ble atmosphere. The main goal of its was to find ten co-submitters to support each

resolution.No wonder delegates were sat-isfied with their work - ideas for improv-ing ecological situation were remarkable and brilliant.

Besides, participants from Lithua-nia, which represented Cameron and the

Ukraine, said that Environmental Com-mission considers actual problems, be-cause our Earth is in danger and if we did not change style of life as soon as pos-sible, the results would be disastrous for our planet.

If you try to save the energy and water, plant trees, don’t smoke, take part in the Earth Hour, protest against pollu-tion and feel that ecological problems is a topic close to your heart, Environmental Commission is for you.

Economicand Financial Committee

But participants of Eco-nomic and Financial Commit-tee are seriously interested in this problem and they believe that it deserves attention. This point of view is right since the majority of people claim that economic and financial prob-lems play an important role in every state’s life. The solution of such problems will be help-ful and valuable anyway.

The lobbing took place in school №154, started at 10 A.M. and the cheerful atmos-phere established from the first minute. Chairs and del-egates introduced themselves,

Have you ever thought about diminution of trade barriers purposely to sustain LEDC’s? We guess your answer will be “no”.

named places where they study and described their char-acters by three adjectives. Af-ter short and clear instructions by Chairs it was time to start!

Participants divided into small groups for developing, correcting and discussing their resolutions. By the way, ten co-submitters were needed to represent each resolution in formal debates. That’s why delegates were trying to con-vince opponents in values of their resolution and stood up for each voice. We were really excited by the hard work of this Committee.

• Vitalina Lebedeva,• Veronika Zheshko

• Vitalina Lebedeva,• Veronika Zheshko

8 April 13, 2011

Belamun TribuneOfficial Newspaper of theBelarusian Model United Nations. Minsk, 2011

Press Team: Hanna Baradzina (editor-in-chief), Yury Kascien' (design), Ilya Shashkov (photo), Maryna Kudzinava (photo), Anna Parkhanovich, Kate Zhgirovskaya, Vera Podosinovik, Vitalina Lebedeva, Veronika Zheshko, Ann Boguminskaya, Gleb Golovkov.

Belamun-TV: Oleg Baranovsky, Alexander Kalyuganov, Anton Blashkevich.

Contact: simka.bspu@gmail.com; +37529-779-28-83.

Read the rest and watch videos on the blog: http://belamun2011.blogspot.com

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