MUN Tips
UN Acronyms
Misc. UN
MUN Lingo
Forbidden Phrases (AKA What NOT to Do)
100
What you should (try to) motion for (happens towards the beginning of committee)
What is Motion to Open the Speaker's List?
100
UNGA
What is United Nations General Assembly?
100
The predecessor of the United Nations
What is the League of Nations?
100
First motion of the conference
What is motion to open debate?
100
A solution commonly used in Security Council
What are peacekeepers?
200
What you should be doing when delegates are giving speeches
What is passing notes?
200
UNICEF
What is United Nations Children's Fund?
200
Name 4/6 of the official languages of the UN
What are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish?
200
This is what you say when you have a question
What is point of inquiry?
200
A common solution to securing funding
What are NGOs?
300
What you should be doing at pretty much all times
What is raising your placard?
300
NATO
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization
300
Name 3/5 main bodies of the UN, as specified in the UN Charter
What are the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Security Council, Secretariat, and International Court of Justice.
300
This is what you pass in a crisis instead of full length resolutions
What are directives?
300
A common answer to "How will this solution be overseen?"
What is "create a subcommittee?"
400
What you should be doing in your bloc
What is writing operatives? (Don't be the guy stuck writing pre-ambs, most people skip them anyways)
400
Name the P-5 Security Council members AND at least one other non-permanent member.
P-5: : China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States Non-Permanent:Angola (2016) Chad (2015) Chile (2015) Jordan (2015) Lithuania (2015) Malaysia (2016) New Zealand (2016) Nigeria (2015) Spain (2016) Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (2016)
400
Number of member states
What is 193?
400
This is the time when you present your resolution to the committee
What is formal caucus?
400
Often used to "raise awareness" or as a source of funding
What are social media campaigns?
500
Please for the love of God do NOT say this
What is "I would like to commend the previous speaker?" (it's overused and takes up your speaking time. as soon as you start with this most people will tune you out)
500
Name 5+ G-20 states
What is European Union, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
500
The current Secretariat General
Who is Ban Ki-moon?
500
The best way to vote
What is roll call vote?
500
This issue is often pointed out to avoid solving the actual problem
What is "Education and Awareness?"
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