Model United Nations What is MUN Model United

Model United Nations

What is MUN • Model United Nations is a 3 -day conference similar to the United Nations in which students participate as delegates to various UN committees. • Participants research and formulate political positions based on the actual policies of the countries they represent. • The participants range from middle school students to graduate school students. • Model United Nations involves researching, public speaking, debating, and writing, often along with critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership skills. • The official and working language of the conference is English

The MUN gathering

History • The first instances of Model United Nations was the Model League of Nations Assembly. • The first recorded meeting of a simulation of a Model League of Nations was run by Harvard University in 1927. • In the 1980 s, the United Nations Association of the United States of America was established to coordinate and track the development of MUNs on a global level. • The year 2012, there about 400 MUN conferences worldwide. • In Greece in the fifteen sessions held since 1998, over 2300 students have participated in MUN.

MUN New York city

Committees • The committees usually consist of the six committees of the General Assembly: • Social Humanitarian and Cultural Committee • Committee on Disarmament And International security • Special Political and Decolonisation Committee • Commission on Economic and social Development • Commission on Drugs and Crime • Commission on Sustainable Development • Finally there is the SECURITY COUNCIL which consists an independent committee.

MUN speech

Republic of Korea

THE SELECTION OF THE Candidates • This year our school was chosen to participate in MUN as the Republic of Korea! • For the selection of the ambassadors which will represent our school in MUN a committee was set up. • This committee is consisted from mates who have been ambassadors the previous years. • After a long procedure it was finally decided who will be the ambassadors for this year.

Ambassadors Ø Security Council: Marianthi Priakou Ø Social Humanitarian and Cultural Committee: Asimina Mpotsi Ø Committee on Disarmament and International Security: Georgina Aggelou Ø Special Political and Decolonisation Committee: Tatiana Hourvouliadou Ø Commission on Economic and Social Development: Nasia Tsimpoura Ø Commission on Drugs and Crime: Philippos Fotopoulos Ø Commission on Sustainable Development: Angelos Vachatoris

Republic of Korea • South Korea officially the Republic of Korea is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. • It comprises an estimated 50 million residents distributed over 100. 000 km 2. • The capital and largest city is Seoul, with a population of 10 million. • South Korea is a presidential republic. • It is Asia's fourth largest economy and the world's 15 th largest economy.

south Korea's map

• The European Union (EU) and South Korea are important trading partners, having negotiated a free trade agreement for many years since South Korea was designated as a priority FTA (Free Trade Agreements) partner in 2006. • The free trade agreement was approved in September 2010, and took effect on July 1, 2011. • South Korea is the EU's eighth largest trade partner, and the EU has become South Korea's second largest export destination.

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