Day Two

Update #1 – ASEAN

  • Roll Call
  • For-and-against speeches delivered on the South China Sea dispute
  • The delegate of Indonesia proposed an amendment to the current resolution – passed
    • Send UN inspectors and personnel on an annual basis to verify the demilitarisation of the South China Sea
  • The delegate of Myanmar proposed an amendment to the current resolution – not passed
    • No additional artificial islands may be built in the South China Sea within the nine-dash line area that is not within 200 nautical miles from China's borders.
  • The resolution proposed on the South China Sea dispute was not passed
  • Open debate on ASEAN's involvement in the Belt and Road Initiative began

The delegate of China confirmed the statements said yesterday about how China has had historical claim on the South China Sea islands. During the speeches, both delegates of Myanmar and the North Korea (DPRK) expressed concern on China's hard-line stance on the dispute, and questioned whether China will assert its dominance in not only future resolutions, but also in the South China Sea. The delegate of Indonesia believed that their proposed amendment on China's demilitarisation of the South China Sea would verify China's sincerity; after some speeches were delivered, the amendment was added to the resolution.

After the delegate of Myanmar proposed their amendment, the delegate of China defended that the artificial islands would be economically beneficial to other ASEAN nations – the delegate of Japan expressed concern on the environmental issues the islands would bring towards the South China Sea. The delegate of Myanmar questioned China's whole ownership on any future islands built on or near the nine-dash line area – the delegate of China stated that China would own all artificial islands it builds, but other ASEAN nations will greatly benefit from the building of those islands and the monetary incentives they will bring.

The resolution has China having ownership of all the disputed islands within the nine-dash line, which the delegate of Indonesia expressed concern about.

Update #2 – ASEAN

  • Progress on the Belt and Initiative was made
    • Voting to move to the resolution procedure to begin was objected
    • A friendly amendment was submitted by the delegate of New Zealand
    • Amendments were introduced to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) resolution
    • The delegate of Brunei proposed the amendment to replace Clause 8 in the resolution (change currency from USD to Chinese renminbi) – not passed
    • Amendment submitted by the delegate of China to strike Clause 2, sub-clause 3, sub-sub clause vi

The delegate of Taiwan stated that the BRI would increase China's dominance, and that the ASEAN nations can prosper economically without China's involvement. The delegate of Indonesia stated that "the resolution will foster a new age of development in Asia."

A heated discussion began on the proposed change of currency by Brunei for the currency to switch from United States Dollars to Chinese Renminbi due to the fact that having the currency in USD would lead to further dependency on the United States, argued the delegate of Brunei.

Update #3 - ASEAN

  • The delegate of Taiwan amendment has not been passed over sharing the bureaucrats between countries as she is stating that her new amendment will only be beneficial to her own country.
  • Corruption and the employment of bureaucratic officials is the last resolution they will be discussing right now.
  • The delegate of Indonesia states that it takes 4 years of deciding on officials is too long and the government deciding on those officials makes it unjust. The delegate of Indonesia also questions the delegate of Taiwan how education will be affected as well as the health of the people.
  • The delegate of China along with the delegate of Taiwan, both talk about the ways that governments hire there government officials and how it is not fair. Jae Ho Cho said, "I decided to put some objective criteria to reduce nepotism and cronyism in government official recruiting." He explained how in South Korea, it is favoritism that allow officials to get jobs as other officials that have ties with them will allow them to take their spot.
  • The amendment passes for the Delegate of China over corruption control
  • The resolution for solving the issue over corruption in countries and how to vote upon workers has been passed


Update #4 – ASEAN

  • The resolution on the Belt and Road Initiative was passed
  • Successfully passed a resolution on the issue corruption and bribery in Southeast Asia
    • Intense debate for one to one and a half hours
    • Most countries already had consensus on the issues
  • By the end of day 2 – four resolutions were introduced and three out of four of them were passed

"The good thing I saw with this committee was that, even though we had contentious topics, they were always smiling and together. And I think that the bonds that they formed here will last a lifetime." – Head Chair Rohan Mathur

Update #1- DISEC

  • Arms trade treaty is imposed by the delegates of Chile, Congo, China, and India over the
  • China vs India over the Amendment of 3 subclause C
  • Friendly Amendment
  • Amendment Strikes

The committee had opened the conference with addressing the primary resolution over the topic of restricting the use and export of weapons. As well as, using refugees in border control in order to find a beneficial way of using them in there country as they are entering. Chile, Congo, China, and India delegates all made themselves allies with one another as they are for the resolution and are trying stop countries from trading dangerous weapons between one another. They imposed all of their ideas through the Arms trade treaty in where they think it will help stop the export of weapons from one country to another. Very early on, Middle Eastern countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia delegates had gone against this Arms Trade treaty. Th discussion got heated as the country of Iran had asked a strong question over the peacemakers and what there role would play in the Arms trade treaty as there goal was to stop conflict from rising. The delegate of China had completely shut down the delegate of Iran as he said that peacemakers will not be part of this discussion and his question is not valid as the discussion got heated by several delegates questioning the authority of the delegate of China.

The delegate of Saudi Arabia had agreed with the delegate of Iran and they are both against the thought of stopping their export of weapons as Saudi Arabia thinks that stopping the export of weapons will weaken their trade and economy. Saudi Arabia has a strong relationship with the United States because of there exporting of weapons between one another. Not exporting weapons between countries will later cause problems within the economy of several countries as some countries like Saudi Arabia want to be able to trade and gain more weapons in order to create a stronger economy and military defense.

Update #2 - DISEC

  • Fighting to amend the amendment number 3 and 5 as countries like China and Chile say that refugees are to be allowed to work as they cross the border. India starts debating against this as he proclaims that countries need strong traders and workers to be at the border in order to protect their country in the correct matter. The delegate of France had also questioned China, as France has a law that goes against allowing immigrants to enter. The delegate of Japan is also is disagreement with Chile and China as they stated that the UN will have no control over this as the people who will have the control will be the government and the border control.
  • Therefore, due to the fact for the countries disagreeing the amendment was not passed.
  • Resolution of the delegate of Somalia has been passed over the militarization of space and whether or not countries should even care about militarization of space as some countries are not as advanced as other economically or technologically. The delegates of small countries like Venezuela, Rwanda, Yemen, were not in favor of militarization as space as they felt they will fall behind and other countries would have advantages because of there lack of having enough money from there economy and the delegate of Rwanda said,"How are we suppose to care about space if we can barely provide enough food for our people. Other countries that were larger like the Western countries, said that their worry was the rebel groups that might form and create conflicts in the country.

Update #1 – Arab League

  • Roll Call
  • For-and-against speeches on the resolution of the Yemen Crisis
  • Voting speeches for proposed amendment on sanctions and embargoes on Yemen – not passed
  • Resolution on Yemen Crisis passed
  • Moved onto the resolution on the issue of Kurdistan
    • The delegate of Iraqi-Kurdistan delivered a speech for the resolution
      • Would establish 4 semi-autonomous Kurdish states in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran
      • Human rights such as education delivered to the Kurdish people
  • Delegates of Syria and Somalia submitted an amendment each respectively

The Arab League has passed on the resolution of the Yemen Crisis and has begun to debate and discuss on the issue of Kurdistan and the establishing of semi-autonomous Kurdish states. The delegate of Kuwait expressed concern on how the resolution would result in Iraq gaining more land from other Arab League nations, which would be a negative outcome, according to the delegate of Kuwait. The Arab League discussed and debated the issue further before moving onto a break, and will continue their debates on the resolution of the issue of Kurdistan after.

Update #2 – Arab League

  • The delegates moved into voting procedure for the the Kurdistan issue resolution – resolution passed
  • The Chairs have decided to have the delegate of Ethiopia become the delegate of Israel to have all countries involved within the Israel-Palestine conflict to be present
  • The delegate of the United States was also introduced and present, and will continue to do so until any actions on the proposed resolutions have been decided on
  • The delegate of Lebanon presented their resolution first
  • The delegate of the United States argued that Clause 3 in the first proposed resolution was in on itself impossible to succeed
  • An amendment was submitted to the resolution – passed
    • The delegate of Iran asked consent from the delegate of Lebanon to remove Israel from all of Clause 2. The delegate of Lebanon approved the action

With all previous questions presented before the Arab League having been debated and resolved, the League now moves to the issue of the Israel–Palestine conflict, something that has been a topic of heated debate for decades. With the United States and Israel present within the Arab League – but not having voting rights after their motions were objected – debate has begun on the conflict and will continue on until the end of the day.

Update #3 – Arab League

  • Debated for three resolutions on the Israel-Palestine conflict
    • Debated on multiple perspectives involved within the conflict
  • One out of three resolutions was passed
    • Resolution submitted by the delegate of Lebanon – passed
    • Resolution submitted by the delegate of Egypt – not passed
    • Resolution submitted by the delegate of Israel – not passed

The debate was quite skewed in favour of Palestine during the entire debate due to the nature of the Arab League. "In a normal forum people would have supported the more middle-ground solutions, and even leaning towards Israel because they are generally dominated by Western powers. Here, everyone was: 'No, we don't need the middle ground, we don't need to support Israel. We just need to get Palestine their own country'," said the delegate of Somalia when prompted by the reporter for any further comments on the day's debates.

Update # 1 -ICJ

The ICJ started at 8am as it waited for one of Judges to arrive (it was later found out the Judge had been stuck in traffic). Upon the arrival of the judge, the court immediately dove into the second case with great enthusiasm. In Day One they proceeded through the Palestinian Authority v Israel, today they will be going through the Iran v USA case. The following case concerns the years 1987 to 1988, where warships from the USA had attacked and destroyed three commercial oil platforms that belonged to Iran.

As this was the second day, Judges from Day One became the advocates for their respective countries and the advocates from Day One became the Judges for this case.

In Iran's opening statement, the advocate spoke eloquently and stated the reasons why Iran had come to the ICJ; the acts committed by the USA were in direct violation of international law as well as the Treaty of Amity, which both Iran and USA had signed. The Iranian advocate claimed that 80% of Iran's economy depends on the commercial oil platforms, and the destruction of them were unjust and violated Article 10. Furthermore, the Iranian advocate emphasised that the USA attack was not self defence.

The USA advocate in their opening statement claimed that their actions for just and in the act of self defence. They highlighted this by presenting the history of Iran and their attacks on merchant ships. Where Iran needs to prove that the ICJ has jurisdiction, the advocate for USA stated that the ICJ has no jurisdiction for this case.

After the opening statements, the President moved on to the presenting of evidence for both the USA and Iran, as well as questioning of evidence by the Judges.

Update #2 -ICJ


  • Lack of Credibility of the book and letter on the Amity treaty
  • US and Iran dispute over factual evidence of economies like Iraq, who are making 6,000 US dollars from the oil platforms and whether the oil platforms are helpful or not.
  • An insights by the Advocate of United States over the court case
  • Fake News over Iran claiming that the photographs of the oil platforms that United States have claimed they were sent to Iran. However, Iran has said that in the document it claims, "The photographs were not well developed and what you all are saying is not true." This upheld a great dispute as the judges realised that maybe what the is claiming about self defense might not be true. United States has lost a bit of their credibility and will have to convince the judges that even without evidence of them using their oil platforms to attack other countries that the document, book ,and letter are not credible and have speculations that the author might not have credibility.
  • The reporter had gone up to the US advocate as one of the objections had been appealed from the Iran advocates and the US advocate had given his point of view by saying, "

Update #3- ICJ

  • Last few statements have been made in order to put an end to the opening statements as they enter the rebuttals
  • Rebuttals begin as the US advocates are trying to close the debate over their use of oil platforms in self defense and to protect the people of the golf.
  • Iran advocates are trying to convince the delegates that the evidence portrayed of the US is to vague and shows no evidence that they have no tried to attack other neighboring countries around as they have no proven to Iran and other countries by taking photos of the evidence.
  • The United states fights back as the Iran advocates are trying to change topics as the United States advocates claim that Iran has placed mines and oil platforms that have have caused destruction to over 180 ships for the United States and other neighboring countries. This furthermore added to the dispute of the attack on US ships, as the United States advocates claim that Iran did in fact attack two of there ships 100%, but Iran states that those 2 ships which were Stark and Chandler has no evidence that they were attacked. This also related to the topic of the Samuel B Roberts ships and how Iran claims that there were no destruction placed onto the ship of Samuel B Roberts and how that claim is invalid because there is no evidence to back that up.
  • As United States states is trying to gain back the trust between them and the judges, Iran does not deny the fact that they did try to cause conflicts with the US as they used three helicopters in alliance with Irak to attack merchant speaking ships from the United States. The Iran advocates also claim that United States definition of self defense is different as it is based off of just of the people and not taking any other consideration of their country or neighboring countries.

Update #4- ICJ

  • Witness of Iran called upon and sworn in. The direct and cross examination of the witness takes place. The Judges then move onto questioning the witness.
  • Witness of USA called upon and sworn in. The direct and cross examination of the witness takes place. The Judges then move onto questioning the witness.
  • The President then moves things along to the final questioning by Judges before closing statements.
  • Time given for deliberation of both cases by respective Judges before final verdict.
  • Final Verdict for Palestinian Authority v Israel: An advisory opinion (not legally binding). The Judges state that the building of the wall within Palestine territory is illegal and suggest building a fence upon the Green Line instead if Israel does believe their border security to be in danger.
  • Final Verdict for Iran v USA: The ICJ does have jurisdiction for this case. The Treaty of Amity has been violated, including Article 1 and 10. The destruction of the oil platforms by USA did have an impact on the economy and commerce of Iran. The USA must pay 80% of total damages and issue a formal apology.
  • After final verdict, the room burst into applause and the President complimented the members of the ICJ, calling it "perhaps the best Court in my three years at IASAS MUN." He hoped that no matter who won what award on Day 3, that they knew that he was "very proud of them all" and was "amazed" by the skills of the members of Court.


Update #1 – HJCC

  • Every single delegate is striving to have a directive passed
  • Passionate delegates
  • Assassination of Anwar al Sadat

According to the head chair of the Historical Joint Crisis Committee (HJCC) yesterday was a fruitful day of debate. Delegates are clearly passionate about the topic and have studied profusely to make their position clear this weekend.

This morning, the room was shocked when the announcement of the assassination of Anwar al Sadat (President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981) was announced. This assassination was said to have been done by Muammar al Gaddafi (an ISKL delegate) and the committee split up to to discus the update with their allies. Mr. Gaddafi responded to this accusation by saying that he "had his reasons to dislike him, but it saddens [him] that another Arab leader has been lost". A heavy debate immediately broke out between West Germany and Mr. Gaddafi about his supposed intentions. Many delegates were torn whether or not Mr. Gaddafi had assassinated the president of Egypt or not. Mr. Gromyko (Foreign Minister of the USSR) was quick to defend Mr. Gaddafi and the debate was reignited again. Margaret Thatcher of the UK immediately responded to Mr. Gromyko, once again blaming Mr. Gaddafi.

The conversation immediately sidetracked after this due to Hussein Bin Talal mentioning Mr. Gaddafi's affairs with 17 underaged girls and using this to try and prove an assassination. Ronald Reagan was soon to speak out against this and claim this to be a ridiculous attempt to prove Mr. Gaddafi's guiltiness.

After a long debate, accompanied by accusations to the United States for being dollar imperialists and oil exploiters and Mr. Gaddafi claiming that if he were to kill Mr. Sadat he would have "done it in the open and proudly", there was no final verdict on Mr. Gaddafi's involvement. This decision was accompanied by outraged comments from the room and uncontrolled banging of the gavel by Head Chair Dev Belliappa.

BREAKING NEWS IN THE HJCC

  • Real life terror attack of dahl spillage

An unintended event just occurred in the historical joint crisis committee. A container filled with what appears to be dahl has spilled over the carpet right behind the chairs. Whichever delinquent was behind this has not yet been found but multiple delegates have pointed fingers at Ronald Reagan. Heavy debate broke out as soon as the soup had spilled as illustrate by the above photo. Amongst hostage situations, atomic weapons and assassinations, this has yet been the most shocking event to happen in the committee. Head Chair Dev Belliappa has reported to be "shocked and outraged" and fails to understand how this could have happened at such an institution as the ISKL MUN building. Clearly security needs to be updated. The secretary general of the MUN, Isabella Jokela, has called this "the most disruptive event yet in a committee filled with crisis".


The committee has momentarily gone into a break in order for this crisis to be taken care of by the proper authorities.

BREAKING NEWS in the HJCC

Tensions were high in the historical joint committee when a reporter entered the room for an update. West Germany was accusing Iraq of not using the nuclear weapons it sold to the nation properly. Eventually noise and tension rose to such a large degree, that Andrei Gromyko stepped in, adamant and frustrated. He went on a speech about how West Germany still continued to sell weapons to Iraq on the pretence that the Iraqi government would use it for good – which it clearly wouldn't, pointed out Gromyko, so why was West Germany continuing on in this vein?

Simultaneous arguments kept on erupting so frequently, that the Head Chair had to continuously cry for "Order! Order!" The reporter was unable to catch or, indeed, understand all of what was being discussed as they were too busy filming and had just recently arrived to the scene. However, they had managed to capture exclusive footage of the kidnapping of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by a task force sponsored by the Iranian regime. Shortly after, the HJCC took a break to discuss the next steps to be taken in light of this important news.

The footage can be seen below.

Note: The reporter would like it to be stated that they are not, in any form, a videographer.

Brief Update #2

  • The president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, has been kidnapped.
  • Respective leaders defended their plan, claiming it was needed to kill him and everyone should be grateful for their actions. "Sadam Hussein has been finally cleansed of this Earth."
  • Others declared that the actions were in self-interest and the people who's lives had been ruined were not able to see him bought to justice.
  • Solution proposed: USSR, Libya and Iran can't be trusted, and that trust should be put in the UN--- unfortunately there wasn't enough time left and the Chair had to conclude.

Update #1 – Security Council

  • Debating a resolution about cyber-warfare
  • Russia's clause

A heated debate has been ensuing the whole morning in the Security Council. The resolution regards cyber-warfare and the debate has been handled professionally and calmly by the Deputy Chair Arun Ramanathan. The delegate of Kuwait has engaged in a frivolous and ongoing debate with the delegate of Peru while speaking out against many clauses of the resolution and urging for there to be many changes in order for Kuwait to agree to the resolution. A specific clause, submitted by the delegate of Russia, would allow countries to extract data from other countries in order to protect the countries extracting data. It almost seems as if the delegate of Russia has ulterior motives. This clause finally failed to pass with 6 votes against and only 2 votes for.

Update #2 - Security Council

  • P5 in deadlock
  • Salvaging Clauses
  • Directive Passes

After a morning full of heated debate the security council has been in a sticky situation. A sense of anticipation fills the room as the P5 is deadlocked on most clauses of the resolution and has had over one hour of discussion concerning how to proceed with this matter. Delegates attempted to salvage multiple clauses, clause three even after reconsideration did not pass.

The delegate of Germany wished to vote on a resolution to finalize the resolution but was struck down by the Chairs because of the P5 deadlock. The delegate of China and Russia have agreed on a directive for the clauses that did not pass, and the directive passes.

After the long day of debates and disputing clauses delegate apart of the Security council expressed how they would like to reform the Security council. A well as abolish both the P5 and veto.



Update #1 – SPECPOL

  • Guest speaker: Spiritual leader of Kashmir
  • Representation of Kashmir

The spiritual leader of Kashmir came to the MUN today in the hopes of "undertaking action to solve decades of problems in Kashmir." He hopes to undertake this action through "international pressure on India and Pakistan as well as gaining representation." Perhaps the most memorable quote from his speech was: "where the heck did China come from?"


The spiritual leader of Kashmir has come today to speak on the question of the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir. Strangely enough, however, the delegates of China, India, and Pakistan are not included in the committee. The Spiritual leader addressed the delegates with the question "what are we missing?" to which he answered "representation". The leader discussed the fact there is no representation of the independent state of Kashmir. He criticised the United Nations overlooking Kashmir and being treated as inferior by Pakistan and India.


Many delegates, however, mentioned the growing threat of an independent Kashmir turning into a terrorist state. These claims were based upon findings that show there to be more than 6 active terrorist organisations in Kashmir, a country with a population of only 12.55 million. The delegate of Rwanda continued this criticism (will be continued)

Update #1 - UN4MUN

  • Amendments
  • Resolution Consensus

After much dispute and discussion concerning amendments and their resolution. The UN4MUN committee has come to a consensus on their resolution concerning free and fair elections. Delegates of Russia, Turkey, and India showed great concern on the topic of conduction fair elections. The delegate of Turkey expressed his concern on ensuring the citizens of the country vote once in order to conduct a fair election. After lunch the committee will be discussing poverty and hunger.

Update #2- UN4MUN


  • As the reporter was not able to be here at this time, we got insight from the head of chair, Diya Navavati, on what was happening for the rest of the day.
  • Guest speaker Ms.Lauren Alvin came in to do a workshop for delegates in where they learned about how to improve on their consensus-building, compromising, and prioritization. Diya Navati had really enjoyed the workshop and said, "This truly helped delegates gain a better understanding of how UN4MUN works and what values it is based on! "
  • The committee had started by discussing the resolution regarding the question of ensuring free and fair elections. Stated by the head of chair there were certainly several different point of views on this resolution, with the delegates of Israel, Russia, and India speaking their opinions very clearly. However, despite certain opposing opinions, the committee was able to compromise in order to be in full harmony and to pass the resolution.
  • The delegates then came back from lunch and decided to debate over a shocking topic according to the head of chair, the topic was over reducing poverty and hunger in LEDCs (less economically developed countries). Diya Navati said, "Many interesting solutions were proposed, and the delegates cooperated, collaborated, and communicated constructively in order to push the debate forward."
  • There was some breaking news at the end of the session as the delegates for Amnesty International, Palestine, and Greenpeace decided to make a speech addressing their countries voting rights since there was extra time. Diya Navati gave us the insight on what the committee had decided on giving voting rights and said, "Unfortunately for Amnesty International and Greenpeace, they were not granted voting rights. However, to Israel's disappointment, the committee voted to give Palestine voting rights!"


Update #1- HRC

Highlights:

  • Debated on a resolution submitted by the delegate of the USA then another submitted by the delegate of Nigeria on the rights of asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees


  • Most of the debate on the first resolution had to do with disputes over aid provision and special cases referring to LEDC countries - these were the points driving debate


  • The second resolution had significantly more amendments (both friendly and unfriendly) debated; this was really good because more delegates had the chance to speak and more placards were being raised


  • Due to a lack of resolutions, the committee moved to GA prep in the afternoon (researching, making speeches)


  • The committee hosted superlatives voting, some of the awards including most likely to start WWIII - Turkey, and most likely to win a Nobel peace prize - India


Day 2, Reso 3, Topic 3 : Right to self-determination, Turkey, PASSED

Day 2, Reso 4, Topic 4 : Rights of refugees, USA, PASSED

Day 2, Reso 5, Topic 4 : Rights of refugees, Nigeria, PASSED


Note 1: Special thank you to Head Chair of HRC for providing this information :)Note 2: The reporter would like to apologise to HRC members if they are not satisfied with the following report. Reporter was running around and couldn't find time for HRC. So sorry!