Points & Motions
What is point of order?
What is when the chair or a delegate has made a potential error in terms of rules of procedure?
What type of clause is action-oriented and outlines the steps in the draft resolution?
HINT: It uses simple present tense
E.g: Requests all member states to send humanitarian aid.
What is operative clauses?
Name one individual involved with drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
What is Eleanor Roosevelt, Pen-Chun Chang or Charles Malik?
How many nations are part of the United Nations?
What is 193?
What is right of reply?
What is when the delegate feels that their member state has been defamed and requests for the ability to respond/clarify?
What is a sponsor?
What is a sponsor is a delegate that was one of the main contributors for a draft resolution?
What are the full names of these abbreviations: ECOSCO, WHA, UNSC?
What is economic and social council, world health assembly, united nations security council?
How many official languages does the United Nations have?
What is six languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)?
What is a moderated caucus?
What is a timed debate, with allocated individual and total time, to discuss a specific topic?
What is a signatory?
What is a signatory is a delegate that supports a draft resolution?
What is the main judicial organ of the United Nations
What is the International Court of Justice?
What is a dias?
What is a dias is the title for the group of people leading the committee?
What is the first motion to formally begin debates and discussions?
What is motion to open debate?
What type of clauses outline the ongoing situation, the issues the committee seeks to resolve and typically use gerunds (-ing verbs)
HINT: Not needed in a crisis
e.g: Emphasizing the need to deploy humanitarian aid
What is preambulatory clauses?
What are the six organs of the UN
What is the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, ICJ, Trusteeship Council, the Secretariat?
TRUE OR FALSE: Previously, diplomatic immunity allowed UN ambassadors to avoid paying for parking tickets/fines?
True
What is a round robin?
What is a round robin is a type of moderated caucus where delegates give speech in order of chairs or seating arrangement?
What is an unfriendly amendment?
What is an unfriendly amendment is where no sponsor, of a draft resolution, agrees to change a clause and the majority of the committee must be in favour for that clause to be struck/changed?
What is the role of the trusteeship council
What is supervises government of trust territories and represents their best interests in the process of decolonization, as well as maintaining global peace?
Which of the UN's principal organs are inactive?
What is the trusteeship council?