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This point is used when a delegate experiences personal discomfort that hinders their ability to participate in committee. Examples: temperature of room, distractions during committee, can’t hear another delegate, etc.
What is Point of Personal Privilege
Much like the working papers and draft resolutions that emerge from GA committees, these are composed of sponsors, signatories, and clauses
What are directives?
This is the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN
What is the General Assembly?
This is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
The U.S. announced it would halt funding to this UN agency on April 14
What is the World Health Organization?
These are statements in the first section of the draft resolution that describes the problems that the committee wants to solve as well as previous measures taken to combat the problem. Pre-ambulatory clauses are usually italicized or underlined by not numbered
What are Pre-ambulatory clauses?
This is referred to the storyline each delegate creates and aims to accomplish throughout the course of committee
What is a crisis arc?
This title is given to the person who is the Chief Administrative Officer of the UN and is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council for a 5-year, renewable term
What is the Secretary-General
This committee deals with disarmament, global challenges and threats to peace that affect the international community and seeks out solutions to the challenges in the international security regime
What is Disarmament and International Security?
On January 3, a U.S. airstrike on Baghdad's international airport killed this person, commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps
Who is Qasem Soleimani?
This is a variation of the moderated caucus, where every delegate in the committee gives a speech in order, hence the name
What is a round robin?
These notes draw from the resources of two or more delegates to increase the likelihood of executing a difficult event
What is a joint-person directive/joint-private directive
There are this many member states in the United Nations (+/- 10 margin of error)
What is 193
This committee deals with issues relating to economic growth and development
What is the Economic and Financial Committee?
This person was the first major world leader confirmed to have COVID-19
Who is Boris Johnson?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This is a change not approved by all the sponsors to their draft resolution and must be voted upon before it can be included into the text
What is an unfriendly amendment
This is when delegates have a limited amount of time to address a problem
What is a timed crisis?
These are the five permanent members of the Security Council
Who are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This is an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its mission is "working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world."[
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
The G20 decided to contribute this much money to contribute to the global fight against COVID-19
What is $5 trillion?
These are different groups that have similar ideas and opinions about the topics
What are blocs
This term refers to a delegate’s performance inside committee, including her speeches, collaboration with other delegates, and directive writing
What is in-room?
This person is the current secretary general of the United Nations
Who is António Guterres
This council held five special sessions in 2021 concerning
What is the United Nations Human Rights Council?
The United States on July 21 ordered China to close its consulate in this city within 72 hours, escalating tensions between the two countries.
What is Houston, Texas?