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Fancy Diplomacy, Stern Soviets Liven Model UN Proceedings
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By Terry Ostmeyer
The Soviets walked out, the president of the General Assembly nearly lost his job, and practically everyone else was lost in the rigors of parliamentary procedure in a lively KU Model United Nations conference last Friday and Saturday.
This year's Mock UN found itself deep in the throes of heated debate right from the start and by the time the two-day conference adjourned Saturday, only two of the four resolution areas were voted on in final form by the Assembly.
In the third session, charges of Western bias, inconsistency in decisions, and general incompetence were repeatedly directed toward the General Assembly president, the Steering Committee, or the assembly as a whole, by delegates from countries in the Sino-Soviet bloc, and finally, the Soviet delegation, followed by the Communist bloc, stalked from the Assembly floor.
BEFORE THE walkout, the chairman of the Soviet delegation, said in a stormy message to the assembly, that the Sino-Soviet bloc could no longer abide by the decisions of the Model UN because of Western bias, capitalist plots, inconsistent decisions, and unrealistic voting and representation by many of the nations.
The latter seemed to be the principal reason behind the Soviet move. And Betty Reynolds, Wellington senior and secretary-general of the assembly, appealed to the Sino-Soviet bloc to return, she reminded the delegations of their responsibilities to the countries they represent and to vote as their nations, not their persons.
The Communist bloc heeded the appeal of the secretary-general and returned to the assembly, its point apparently well-taken.
The mock UN conference became deadlocked in its first session Friday morning concerning the first resolution to admit the People's Republic of China (Red China) into the agencies of the UN.
THE RESOLUTION was defeated in amended form that afternoon by a vote of 50 for, 20 against, and 13 abstentions. The United States and the Republic of China (Taiwan) led the debate against the resolution.
The next resolution area, regional disarmament, was introduced by a delegate from Laos and was quickly amended by the Republic of the Congo-Leopoldville.
Following the defeat of an amendment to the amendment, the Soviet Union voiced the first of its charges of incompetency of the assembly. The Soviet delegation said the UN could not make decisions to
apply to all nations of the world, such as disarmament.
The Soviet charge was overruled and the resolution overwhelmingly passed, 68-8, with six abstentions.
SATURDAY'S FIRST session began with the introduction of the next resolution, the internationalization of foreign aid, but it was immediately bogged down by intervening motions to suspend the rules by several nations.
With considerable debate, two amendments were added to the resolution before the assembly recessed for lunch.
The fireworks began as soon as the last session opened. The Soviet Union moved to suspend the rules to move for aensure of the chair — Stan Walton, Kansas City senior and General Assembly president. The motion failed, however.
The delegation from Iraq followed this charging the Soviets with making a mockery out of the assembly, and the Sino-Soviet bloc retaliated when the Rumanian delegate charged the chair and the Steering Committee with Western bias.
The "orders of the day" were called for, and the assembly soon went back to normal, but the illated resolution on foreign aid was tabled by a motion by Iraq in order for Great Britain to introduce the resolution concerning the India-Red Chinese border dispute.
APPEALS from the chair and more charges of inconsistency flew hot and heavy following Great Britain's move. A delegate from Ghana then stopped action on the India-China border resolution by succeeding to bring to the floor a resolution on the violation of human rights by Portugal in Angola and Mozambique.
By this time, however, the assembly was definitely engaged in a full-fledged parliamentary procedure battle. Shortly thereafter came the Soviet walkout.
When the Communist bloc re-
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Great Britain attempted to bring back the resolution on the border dispute and several moves to bring back the foreign aid question followed the action on Portugal, but none of the efforts could make any headway.
turned, the Portugal resolution and its amendment still remained on the floor. After several attempts to block the vote, the resolution was passed in part.
The confusion became greater, until almost unnoticed, the Soviet Union with the assistance of members of the Western bloc, managed to move for adjournment.
The motion passed and the 1963 Model UN ended with the disappearance of stern diplomacy, replaced by broad smiles and a great deal of handshaking.
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