Elephants are some kind of “national animal” for ivoirers. So in order to teach you how to handle this quite important topic, if you ever encounter it, here some elephant-content:

Remember: Even our National Football-Team is called “Elephants”. And they are much quicker!

MUNited+++The Madness starts: Delegates are sitting in the lounge till morninghours+++Dressguide: Hugo or Elizabeth?+++Optional and mandatory: The Dayplan+++No catcontent: Elephantcontent+++Messages from Very Important delegates+++

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Welcome and good morning, fellow delegatesToday is your day. The NMUN, with your partizipation finally starts. From now on you are not longer a delegate of „phantasia“ or „neverland“. Not longer „ready for the mock-session“ or „fini-shed with the position paper?“. It is the mor-ning for which you have prepared yourself over many, many months. Studied charts about trade incomes and populationfigures, checked lists with allies and possible threads, learned the UN Millenium Goals, maybe even figured out the current state of the pro-cessing in your country. Now you all have reached NYC. Prepared and propably sui-ted. Ready to switch in Charakter, as soon as the negotiation starts. Some delegates even learned Baoulè to achieve the maximal iden-tification with the desired role. You have recognized the other delegations arrive and prepare in the Marriott. And this morning

we survived ended the preparations:Finally, we are offical delegates of the Rèpu-blique de Côte D‘Ivoire.Yesterday you have done the, for the next three days, last steps outside of the hotel for lesure. Sightseeing at its best. Most of you have been at the Rockefeller Center, getting an amazing overview over the City at 230 meters, some of you took the chance to use the ferry to staten island, the green lung of this city. Also the Moma was a well frequen-ted place for a short (or long) visit. Many de-legates used the chance to pay a visit at the „Fette Sau“ and experience the unique at-mosphere of a german restaurant, imagined by americans. Anyway, the taste was ama-zing and the size easily configureable. That, and the lemon-cheesecake as dessert made a nearly perfect end for a very exausting day. No worries: many of them will follow!

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Diplomat‘s Dressguide

Dear noble delegative readers:We made it!Through the energy of NY into the energy of debates. So feel free to fight for the ho-nour of the respected nation you have to represent and try to be as „delegative“ as possible. Show the others who is damn boss!

Let’s think of Miss Maggie Thatcher, our much beloved iron lady – What happened to her? See, it is not a fashion model that keeps you in power. The current trends are definitely good and crazy hats, a dress that looks sleek as an easter egg and partying till late. But the times actually changed and the Queen Elizabeth II has no political power left at all – so, you see, sometimes you just go wrong with wearing accessoires like crowns which definitely never would have become a trend. Sorry Madame, you are so out of fashion!

A shouting voice, the neck of a bull and a broad back make this men the irresistible leader of Venezuela. His lovely curled black hair is usually covered by even more colourful hats than the one of the queen and his thick lips predestine him for the most powerful vacuum cleaner of South America. And even without looking gay he can easily stand to wear the most fantastic uniforms that not only express the creativity of his nation but also their cocaine consumption. Therefore he is the clearly winner.

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Elephant-content

Yes, the moment you all waited for is just today. Be cool, use the time till 6pm for last prepera-tions, suit up, and rock the next 72 hours.

09:00 - NMUN Registration (only for heads)Over the day - EO-Trainings by NMUN-Staff (Highly optional!) Inform yourself about places and dates!17:00 - Meeting at Level 7, SUITED UP!!!!! (FS Tie & Pin)18:00 - Opening Ceremony @ Westside20:00 - Committee Sessions03:00 - „Mett-Igel“ All-U-Can-Eat, various tastes @ Room 2803

About today

Weathertoday it‘s going to be really sunny,hopefully it‘s an good omen that the week will be funny. Even if the negotiation‘s will be just as hot,you‘r all able to cut the Gordian knot.

peak of the day with unto 19° will be about noonbut it will go down to 6° at night.

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Message from OuttaraDear highly respected Delegates of the Repub-licc of Côte d‘Ivoire,I am very happy, that you are eligible of representing my famous and beloved country in your assigned committee, and hope, that you will earn the respect you deserve as a diplomat of our glorious nation.The Côte d‘Ivoire stands for tradition and the values of unity, discipline and labour over generations. Our diplomacy is well known and respected all over the world. From the Asi-an continent to western democracies, from southern republics to northern states, the Côte

d‘Ivoire has allies, friends and respected cultu-res with different values. We are always trying

to solve problems peacefully and supposed to show this in negotiations.I demand the very best of you in the upcoming days in order to continue years of successful planted and gro-wing international relations in Africa, and of course, the whole United Nations.

I ni baara,Alassane Ouattara

StilblüteWir haben ja alle die gleichen Möbel, aber der Lino ist ja nur bei euch. Daran kann ich die Zimmer unterscheiden.

Côte d‘Ivoire, FAO

Honorable Delegates of Côte d’Ivoire,We would hereby like to welcome you of-ficially to the National Model United Na-tions (NMUN) Conference 2012. As you have prepared yourself well and obtained a hard training during the past months, you will now have the possibility to prove your abilities in a “Real World” context. You will address global issues that matter – as well as you will get involved personally in challen-ging and rewarding discus-sions with people from all over the world.This year’s NMUN hosts more than 300 schools and universities from different countries with a variety of different cultural back-grounds.As representatives of Côte d’Ivoire you are also repre-senting your school and your home country. Bear in mind that others may judge you not only by your abili-ties to debate during the committee sessions, but furthermore by your appearance and behavior when walking down the Marriott floors or even the streets of NYC.As you already might have noticed, the hotel is filling more and more with other delega-tions. This huge amount of people will reach

its peak by today’s afternoon. As a result, the Marriott elevators may reach their limit of capacity very quickly. It is not uncommon during NMUN that taking the fire steps will get you to your conference rooms more quickly than using the elevator. So don’t be afraid to use them ;) You will pretty sure meet other delegates bursting up and down the fire steps – which is a good opportunity to get in touch with them.

Having said this, do not forget what NMUN is all about: Having fun! Don’t take everything too serious, nor refrain from meeting other delegates when you’re out of committee sessions. The people you’ll meet the-re could turn out to become long lasting friendships asi-de from NMUN.We as head delegates are convinced that you did a very good job and would like to thank you for being

such a productive and inspiring delegation. We are sure that you will enjoy the next days – as well as we are sure that this event will leave a long lasting impression.May the force be with you,Andreas & Augustinus

The headdelegates writing

Newsupdate

The last days have been pretty turbulent for the glorious nation of elephants and cocoa. So here is a short update about our country:1. Sanctions against roitersAfter counceling with Burkina Faso, Bali and the ECOWAS Côte d‘Ivoire closed the bor-ders to Mali, furthermore we stopped all fi-nancial transactions with our neighbour. On the 22 of March Mali had a military revolt, caused by the touareg-roits in the northern part of the country. After the heavy stuggles the former president Amadou Toumani Tou-re is now hiding with loyal militarys near the

capital of Mali, Bamako.2. New trading system in cocoa industry es-tablished.The new cocoa trading system (now mainly sold by public auctions) has been successful implemented. After Outara forced it in Ja-nuary by Law many companys feared explo-ding prices, but an excessive raise of cocoa-prices of the worlds largest producer was not observed. 3. MTA announces 3G for Côte d‘IvoireAfter negotiations the telecommunication-specialist MTA will start to sprad 3G in CdI.