The Conference

It is now day three of the conference and the students are working late into the night to get their working papers written and to pass resolutions. Mr. Cowe and myself are extremely pleased with all the hard work the students have been doing and their progress.

See their comments below!!

Lourdes - Working hard

 

The Legal commitee

"The progress of the legal committee is well on its way. For an issue that is highly complex and controversial amongst smaller nations, delegates including myself have been working on Working Papers to ensure that everybody’s voice is heard. So far so good! Belize Rocks! Mom, I love you and happy birthday!"

Lourdes Argueta – Legal, General Assembly, Belize

 

The Spratly Islands debate

I’m glad that we are finally getting closer to the best resolution for the Spratly Islands since we’ve been discussing working paper 1:1 for a whole afternoon! However, now we are on 1.5.1 and we have had two speakers; China and Taiwan who have given their views on the topic and contributed a lot.

Camila

Countries as a whole are beginning to comprehend themselves clearer and are cooperating with enthusiasm to obtain a final, efficient resolution without ignoring any country and taking all points of views into consideration equally.

Alejandro

Luis P - Disarmament and Security

 

The knowledge of so many delegates in the topic is amazing which encourages everyone to speak and participate in all forms of discussion. Every delegate is important for world consensus.

Luis Pastora - Disarmament and International security, Belize

 

Trade and Development

“We have alreadybeen successful in persuading countries to support our resolution. We are debating and proposing amendments”

Diego and Luis V - UN conference on Trade and Development

Alexandra G

 

Brain Drain

The “Brain Drain” topic is going well. Two different possible resolutions are being worked on to which all countries have merged with.

Alexandra G

Nataly Lovo

 

It’s amazing to see our efforts finally coming together with everyone else’s to form a resolution. It is a great experience and I’ve learnt a lot.

Nataly Lovo - Tanzania

 

UN Development Programme - Roberto and Rodrigo

“It was a very exciting experience because of the fact everybody was well prepared and knew their topic well. We enjoyed our time speaking and together as a group came up with relevant solutions to the problem of generic drugs and intellectual property rights.”
Rodrigo and Roberto - UN Development Programme (Tanzania)

 

Jose and Marcos

Children’s Fund is going well. HIV/AIDS being an epidemic is being solved from slightly different views from MEDC and LEDC countries.
Jose Isart – UN children’s Fund

Constructive and interesting!
Marcos – UN children’s Fund

"The arguments between the delegates give different ideas about the topic which gives a clear view about what the solution can be."

Blaise - UN High Commission on refugees, Tanzania

"Our committee has already passed a resolution!"

Andrea C - UN High Commission on refugees, Tanzania

Blaise and Andrea

 

Old Faces

By chance we ran into Andres Castro who had two interesting comments for us and the students back home at the ABC.

1. "TOK is a GOD-SEND!"


2. "I´m scrubbing toilets for a living!"