Draft Resolutions are to be written during council sessions—you are prohibited from pre-writing them beforehand.

A Draft Resolution is a formal document that the committee debates and votes on during council sessions. Only one Draft Resolution will be passed for each agenda. More about the DR can be found in the M-HMUN RoP.

The instructions below serve as a standardisation; the final jury will go to committee chairs, and guidelines will be specified during council sessions. They may also choose to change or provide documentation as they see fit.

1. Draft Resolutions should be titled as such: SHPGMUN'27_[Council]_DR_[Agenda no.].[Order presented in]

   • e.g. SHPGMUN'27_WHO_DR_1.2 

2. Draft Resolutions are to be written in British English with a competent degree of formality.

3. State the committee, agenda, sponsors, and signatories in the Draft Resolution.

   • Sponsors should be those who contributed most to the draft resolution and would therefore strongly advocate for its passage. Minimum 1, maximum 3.

   • Signatories do not need to show support for the resolution, but merely acknowledge its existence and express an interest in debating it.

4. Draft Resolutions are to be written in Times New Roman, with 1.15-line spacing in left-aligned format.

5. Usage of bold, italics, and underlines is permitted.

6. Draft Resolutions should follow a specific format, as outlined below:

[Full name of committee; unabbreviated]

Agenda: [Title of the agenda that this draft resolution is regarding]

Sponsors: [Full names of countries in alphabetical order, separated by commas]

Signatories: [Full names of countries in alphabetical order, separated by commas]

The [shortened committee name, i.e. without the term “United Nations”],

Preambulatory Clauses

[Preambulatory phrases have to be italicised, and each clause ends with a comma.

If there is a preambulatory clause that refers to the UN Charter, it is ordered first. Any clauses that refer to past UN resolutions, declarations, reports or related publications will be ordered second.]

Operative Clauses

[Operative phrases have to be numbered and italicised, and each clause ends with a semicolon.

If there is an introduction of a sub-clause, it has to begin with a colon, followed by alphabetical lists (a., b., c.) under the clause, starting with a lowercase letter and ending with a comma/no punctuation at all (except for the last).

All of the subclauses in a clause must have a similar syntactic structure. The absolute last operative clause must end with a full stop. There should only be one full stop in the entire Draft Resolution. 

Operative clauses may be divided into groups/sections/parts. There will be no clauses beyond a sub to the third degree (i.e. sub-sub-sub clause)]

A list of preamble and operative phrases is available here.