How to write and vote on resolutions

Writing and Voting on Resolutions

• Working paper
  

1. (Example E)
   
   1. A working paper is a draft of your resolution that you create during a conference.
      

• It is considered the first draft of your countries' resolution.
  
• You compile all of your ideas on this paper.
  
• At the beginning of the conference, you will spend most of your time discussing the issue with your country and then with other countries. As you talk with your country and other countries, you create the working paper.
  

  
   

• Funding
  
  • OK, you have just been assigned a committee that is dealing with some economic issue. You and your fellow delegates all agree that there is a problem AND you have all agreed on how to solve the problem and you are ready to write a resolution. Great! Right? Well, there is still one more problem…How will you pay for this?
    

1. Think back to the example about the four students debating where they will eat lunch. How was the poorest student convinced to go for zhen jiao?
   
2. The same thing is true in the U.N. Somehow, you have to pay for whatever resolution you pass.
   
3. So, where should we look for money? (Example G)
   

• The World Bank
  

  
   

• Amendments
  
  • Amendments are revisions made to resolutions before they are voted upon that are written in order to…
    
    • Get other countries on board
      
    • Clarify any vague language
      

  
   

• Using the "proper language" in Amendments
  
  • When writing amendments, you must use the correct language(See example H)….
    

  
   

• Move into Method of Voting
  
  • Each country votes "yea" or "nay" for each respective resolution.