Points & Motions
This point in debate can be used to ask a question regarding procedure of debate.
What is a Point of Inquiry?
This physical sign indicates a country's name and is raised to make a point, motion, or participate/speak.
What is a Placard?
This set of delegates are the authors of a draft resolution.
Who are the sponsors?
Each member nation gets this many votes in the United Nations General Assembly.
What is 1?
There are this many main organs, or councils, in the United Nations.
Use this point if you have a physical discomfort (i.e: the room is too hot/cold, you cannot hear the speaker, etc.).
What is a Point of Personal Privilege?
This person holds the debate and is addressed before speaking or making a motion/point.
Who is the Chair?
A resolution is called this before it is voted on.
What is a Draft Resolution?
These are the 5 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
What are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
Every member of the United Nations Security Council has unlimited amount of this power to stop any resolution from being passed.
What is veto power?
This motion opens up the opportunity for delegates to sign up to speak, and make their opening statements.
What is a Motion to Open Speakers List?
After a delegate speaks, they may yield the remainder of their time to these three things.
What are the Chair, another delegation, or questions?
Delegates known as this are those in favor of seeing the resolution presented and debated on the floor.
Who are Signatories?
These are the 2 non-member observer nations of the United Nations.
What are the Holy See/Vatican City and the State of Palestine?
António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General, is from this country.
What is Portugal?
At a conference, this motion can be made to end a debate session (permanently or temporarily).
What is a Motion to Adjourn Meeting?
Delegates are put on this list to have time to give their country's position, relevance, and/or ideas for resolution to the topic.
What is the Speaker's List?
This kind of caucus is used to allow delegates to speak with each other in smaller groups in order to share ideas and formulate resolutions.
What is an Unmoderated Caucus?
What are 193?
This main organ, or Council, of the United Nations resolves legal disputes concerning international law between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.
What is the International Court of Justice, or the World Court?
Raised during debate, this point addresses an incorrect procedure by the Chair.
What is a Point of Order?
When engaging in a moderated caucus, these two things need to be specified in the motion.
What are the number of speakers and the speaking time?
These are the names of the two types of clauses featured in a resolution papers.
What are Preambulatory and Operative Clauses?
There were this many founding nations in the United Nations.
This main organ, or council, of the United Nations is responsible for carrying out the day-to-day operations of the United Nations as ordered by the General Assembly and other Main Organs.
What is the United Nations Secretariat?