Cambodia Position Paper

Cambodia's confirmed A/H1N1 flucases have increased to 17 and the latest case is a 22-year-old Irish woman who traveled from Vietnam, health officials said here on Sunday."So far, nobody has died in the country," said Ly Sovan, deputydirector of the communicable disease control department. The latest person is in a stable condition and is recovering well. Mom Bun Heng, Cambodian health minister, told reporters that his ministry has strengthened the tracking system at two main airports, Phnom Penh International Airport and Siem Reap International Airport by using thermal scanners."Our officials also have been observing the travelers coming into the country through border gates," he added. Earlier this week, Cambodian Health Ministry issued a call to appeal people notto travel to neighboring Thailand if they were not in urgent need.Cambodia's first case of influenza A/H1N1 was confirmed on June23, 2009.

positon paper

Committee: Commission of World Health Organization
Topic: The prevention of the spread of H1N1
Country: Kingdom of Norway
Delegate: Catherine Lan, Sabina Chang

The Kingdom of Norway said that every country should seriously concern about the problem of the spread of the H1N1. In Norway, there were 868 confirmed cases of H1N1. Moreover, world H1N1 death toll rose above 2000. It might continue increase at the end of the year. The situation had to be controlled.

The Kingdom of Norway figured out that the virus of H1N1 was a kind of infectious disease. It spread out amount people easily; however, H1N1 was not fatal. The death rate in Norway was zero percent; it showed clearly that through proper restriction could decline the rate of H1N1 cases.

Norway had already tested the virus of H1N1 and found the therapy of it. So, once our citizen got sick, we gave them medicine immediately. The Kingdom of Norway taught everyone from kids to adults, during the high- contagious period, tried following the important key points below:
1. Washing your hands regularly and thoroughly with soap and water.
2. Coughing or sneezing into your sleeve/elbow fold
3. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouthy.
4. Know the signs and symptoms of H1N1, specifically: sore throat, muscle aches, joint pain, or weakness.
6. If you are ill - STAY AT HOME or IN YOUR RESIDENCE.

The residents of kingdom of Norway followed our rules, so we could controlled the amount of infectious people easily.

Belgium Country Profile

Country Profile
Physical Geography
1. Official Name of Country: Kingdom of Belgium
2. Climate: temperate: mild winters, cool summers: rainy, humid, cloudy
3. Map
1. Absolute Location (find the latitude and longitude)50 50N 4 00E
2. Relative location (is it the 7th largest country in the world? What countries, bodies of water, mountains, and desserts are it next to?)Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between France and the Netherlands
Political Geography
1. Type of government, names of the officials, and major political parties
federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional nonarchy
2. Capital
Brussels
3. International Organization participation
ACCT, ADB (nonregional members), AfDB (nonregional members), Australia Group, Benelux, BIS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, G-9, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, Schengen Convention, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIS, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WADB (nonregional), WCL, WCO, WEU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
4. Size of armed forces
Male 62,722
Female 59, 969
Cultural Geography
1. Official language, and other languages spoken, ethnic composition, and major religions
Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%, legally bilingual (Dutch and French) Fleming 58%, Walloon 31%, mixed or other 11% Roman Catholic 75%, other (includes Protestant) 25 %
2. Population, population growth rate, and population distribution
10,414,336 0.094% urban populations: 97% of total population
rate of urbanization: 0.3% annual rate of change
3. Major cities
Oosteende, Zeebrugge, Brugge, Gent, Kortrijk, Aaist, Antwerp, Mechelen, Leuven, Brussels, Moons, Charlerol, Namur, Liege, Bastogne
4. Infant mortality rate and average life expectancy
Total: 4.44 deaths/1,000 live births
5. Teachers and doctors per population
Economic Geography
1. GNP (Gross National Product) and GDP (Gross Domestic Product) GDP: $389.3 billion
2. Percent of arable land used for agriculture arable land: 27.42%
3. Natural resources construction materials, silica sand, carbonates
4. Major agricultural and industrial products Agriculture: sugar beets, fresh vegetables, fruits, grain, tobacco; beef, veal, pork, milk Industry: engineering and metal products, motor vehicle assembly, transportation equipment, scientific instruments, processed food and beverages, chemicals, basic metals, textiles, glass, petroleum
5. Major exports and imports Export: machinery and equipment, chemicals, finished diamonds, metals and metal products, foodstuffs Import: raw materials, machinery and equipment, chemicals, raw diamonds, pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, transportation equipment, oil products
6. Currency (include exchange rate vs. TWD): 1.00 Eur = 47.7936
7. Balance of trade (include amounts in TWD currency of total exports and imports) Exports: $371.5 billion Import: $387.7 billion
8. Historical events (Timeline format from 1980 to present; give your teacher 10 major events)
Information from CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

The World Bank (UN structure)

How does the World Bank get its money?

• We raise money in several different ways to support the low interest and no interest loans (credits) and grants that the World Bank (IBRD and IDA) offers to developing and poor countries.
  

  The World Bank gets its money from selling IBRD AAA-rated bonds in the world's financial markets. IBRD bonds are purchased by private and institutional investors In North America and other countries. While selling bonds can make money for the IBRD, a greater portion of money from from lending the capital. This capital consists of reserves built up over the years and money paid in from the Bank's 186 member country shareholders.
  

  IDA, the world's largest source of interest-free loans and grant assistance to the poorest countries IDA accounts for nearly 40% of our lending.
  

• What is the World Bank, and what does it do?
  
• The World Bank lends money to poor countries to help them develop economy. It also helps with countries' health problems, and gives them financial support. The World Bank's goal is to overcome poverty and help countries in need of financial help.
  
  
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• Who owns the World Bank?
  
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• The World Bank is like a cooperative in which 186 member countries are shareholders.
  
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• How does a country become a member of the World Bank?
  
• A country must first join the International Monetary Fund (IMF) prior to becoming a member of the Bank. Membership in IDA, IFC and MIGA is conditioned upon membership in IBRD.
  
• Does the World Bank make a profit and, if so, what is done with it?
  
• The profits that the World Banks make is earned from the interest rates charged on some loans and from fees charged for some of our services. Some of the surplus goes to IDA—the part of the Bank that provides grants and interest free loans to the world's poorest countries. The rest of the surplus is either used for debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries, or added to financial reserves.
  

  Why is there so much criticism of the World Bank, and why are there protests against it?
  

  People often misunderstand the purpose of the World Bank and what it's trying to achieve. Some people think that the World Bank is the cause for the problems occurred from globalization, like the increased flow of goods and services- which is a financial problem that has nothing to do with and cannot be controlled by the World Bank. Protests think that the cause of highly indebted countries is also the World Bank and countries will get even poorer when they have to face both financial issues and paying debts. But the World Bank has set up an organization to help countries pay debts.
  

  
   

  
   

Homework for TOMORROW!

Next Wednesday, we will finish our conference. Last Wednesday, we voted to suspend the debate until next class period in order to go home. The motion passed 6-0. In order to restart the class, someone must move to restart the debate.

By tomorrow, you must write a resolution and turn it into ME - not the blog!!! Keep in mind, the best resolutions are going to be voted on during the conference. We will have one resolution for each side (unless one faction of people working on one resolution decides to divide the house.)

You want your resolution to win!

You want your resolution to ...

- have the best language
- achieve your countries' goals (you don't want it to be too "watered-down").
- attract enough people in order to win (you don't to be too "heard-headed").


Look on the blog for help writing resolutions. I look forward to seeing your written resolutions tomorrow.

- Mr. Gibson

P.S. Some of you forgot to complete your homework on the structure of the UN!

Outline of Conference

Debate/Speeches

*** This is where a Model UN Conference starts.***

***Look at your "Proper Procedures" paper for help.***

• First comes a "General Debate"
  
  • During the General Debate of the caucus, each team will give a speech. The speech will come from the position paper
    
    • (Example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqVCJk1FkI)
      

      
       

  • Your speech should have...
    
    • Introduction
      
      • Introduce topic & give your country policy.
        
    • Country Background
      
      • Explain how your country is affect by the topic.
        
    • Topic Background
      
      • Do not spend too much time on the history of the problem,
        
      • However, you should mention...
        
        • past UN resolutions that address the problem
          
        • why your country is involved with the problem
          
        • what your country has done to fix the problem in the past.
          
        • involvement with the problem.
          
    • You DO NOT WANT TO PROPOSE SOLUTIONS during this speech.
      
      • You will propose solutions at the "Substantive Debate."
        
    • During General Debate, you also want to learn who will support your policy and who will not.
      
      • Listen closely to what other delegates say.
        
      • Think about what bloc you and other countries are in.
        
      • Plan who you are going to make allies with during caucus.
        

        
         

  • See Sample speech (Example D) When you give your speech during the general debate portion, remember to...
    
    • read your speech from your position paper.
      
    • speak on behalf of your country
      
      • Brazil feels that...
        
    • take a deep breath before you begin.
      
    • be confident.
      
    • speak from your stomach.
      
    • thank the chairman/chairwoman for the opportunity to speak.
      

    
     

    
     

    
     

    
     

***Guest Speakers***

*** During the opening speeches, every country will include speeches based upon their position papers. Sometimes you will show videos to help make your argument. But sometimes, the committee chairs of individual nations will also ask a guest speaker to address the committee.

• A guess speaker should be someone who is/has…
  
  • experienced, firsthand, situation that deals w/ your committee.
    
    • If you are talking about economic development, bring in someone who is living in an area that is undeveloped and poor.
      
    • If you are talking about nuclear disarmament, bring in someone who lived through Hiroshima, Nagasaki, or Chernoybyl.
      
  • qualified to speak on the subject. Such as…
    
    • If you are talking about economic development, bring in a Nobel Prize winning economist
      
    • If you are talking about problems from nuclear weapons, bring in a nuclear scientist.
      

EXAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wOH2rDtS1Y

Dalai Lama giving a speech at the United Nations

1. After everyone has given their speech, the committee will have a caucus.
   

Step 4.) Caucus

1. A caucus is where the group members address ideas and negotiate what actions must be taken. It comes in between General Debate and Substantive Debate.
   
   1. In a caucus, each delegate goes and talks to other countries and discusses what they think about the issue.
      
      1. Caucus time is ONLY 5 – 10 MINUTES, so you must BE QUICK & ORGANIZED.
         
      2. (youtube clip)
         
   2. During caucuses you (the delegates) discuss policy with other countries and begin writing resolutions.
      
      1. Resolutions are documents written by countries that list actions that should be taken in order to solve the problem.
         
      2. At the end of the conference, everyone will vote on resolutions.
         
      3. During caucus, your country should be trying to find other countries that you think will vote for your resolution.
         
      4. Basically, during caucus time, you are trying to FIND ALLIES!
         
         1. We will go more into resolutions later, but you most know something about them in order to know what caucus is.
            
   3. Your caucus strategy should be something like this...
      
      1. What is our country trying to do?
         
      2. Which bloc should we look to for help?
         
      3. Which individual countries from other blocs can we persuade to be our allies?
         
      4. How much will we have to compromise with other countries in order to get what we want?
         

         
          

   4. Caucusing is like meeting up with your friends and discussing where you will go to eat. Do you want KFC? Zhen bao? Bao zi?
      
      1. When you are discussing where you want to eat, you are caucusing.
         
      2. The restaurant you choose is the winning resolution.
         
2. As a committee, you will decide which type of caucus to have. There are three types.
   
   1. Informal caucus
      
   2. Moderated caucus
      
   3. ***Formal Caucus***
      
3. After the caucus you will write and vote on resolutions
   

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.