The Diplomatic HeraldThe official ORADMUN Conferences newspaper

First issue, Oradea

FRIDAYMay 13, 2011

Oradmun

HigH HOpes fOr internatiOnal cOnference after rOcky start

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African Union Human Rights Council Security Council

Have you ever seen a man telling the truth?The day’s events provided yet more evidence of Zimbabwe’s rapidly de-teriorating political situation.Page 6

united nations secu-rity council reforms becomes a hot topicDelegates want changes; their pro-posal are total equal in some points and total unequal in other points Page 4

russia takes the lead in the Human rights council The session began, Russia asked a change in the order of the topic debates. They started with the topic B: “Review progress of the

millennium development goal, goal nr eight: a global partner-ship for development”. Page 5

JUlIA KleIn, “I personally think it is important to have strict guidelines in a debate and in general, I just love to

moderate discussions, that’s why I chose to become a chairperson in the Security Council. Other than that, the

Security Council is the most important body of the United Nations...”Read more on page 7

The Diplomatic HeraldFriday, May 13, 20112 eDITORIAl

Head of DPIAlexander Warrington

ExComSuzana Mah’d

ReportersAlina Oros

Alexandra Gozman PopSergiu Silaghi

Corina GuiFelicia Ivan

Cristian IuhoşAlex Bratis

Marinela Danciu

Layout editorCosmin Epureanu

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Hurry up and wait: a slow but promising start to a new inter-national conference

The first edition of the Inter-national Model United Na-tions of the University of

Oradea sat in session today for the first time. Although there are many well established simulation events worldwide, OradMUN stands dis-tinguished both in its approach and aims.

There is a global community of enthusiastic students who regu-larly travel to attend International Model United Nations all over the world. These events tend to be ex-tremely fast paced and the Rules of Procedure strictly enforced. This is valuable and realistic but it can also be intimidating and put enthusias-tic students off from enjoying the

academic and personal benefits of this unique mode of learning.

The idea behind OradMUN was to take this concept, bring it to a country and a city well known for the quality and expertise of its students, and to invite them to take part in a simulation especially de-signed for MUN virgins. The organ-isation team saw the value in creat-ing a slower paced more forgiving MUN in which students could learn and practise those skills that can not be taught so well in a classic classroom environment.

Since OradMUN is both a totally new event with a fresh ap-proach to getting people involved, it is hardly surprising that there have been a few teething problems. This combined with a group of Delegates for whom the etiquette and rules of

diplomacy are new have made for a slow but promising start.

The first day shows great promise since delegates are already demonstrating their talent both in getting to grips with the procedures and diplomatic niceties and also adapting to the newly tabled topics. The words of the Secretary-General HE Mr Conrad Rein, about the need to be ready to adapt quickly in in-ternational affairs to unpredictable and changing circumstances has clearly been taken on-board be-cause of the professionalism and enthusiasm with which delegates have met the challenges of the day.

Delegates have built a solid foundation on which to build to-morrow as they set the agenda and move forward with substantive de-bates.

by alexander Warrington

from left to right:Alina Oros, Alexandra Gozman Pop, Sergiu Silaghi, Corina Gui, Felicia Ivan, Cristian Iuhoş, Alexander Warrington, Alex Bratis, Cosmin Epureanu, Marinela Danciu

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secretary general emphasises the need to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances in in-ternational affairs

Dear friends,I am extremely honored to be

here with you today in this beauti-ful city to celebrate the beginning of ORADMUN 2011, the first edition of what will hopefully translate into an annual event. Catalina and I have worked extremely hard with our re-spective teams to launch this con-ference. Our long and challenging journey began last autumn when Catalina asked me if I would like

to serve as Secretary-General. I i m m e d i -

ately ac-c e p t e d

h e r kind

invitation as I strongly believe in the enormous potential of such conferences for the training of fu-ture leaders.

Before I proceed with my of-ficial duty of officially declaring this conference open, I would like to share a few personal remarks with you.

We are currently residing in a globalised, interconnected world that is changing constantly and in which unimaginable events hap-pen. I do not have to remind you of the most recent events - the spring of freedom in the Middle East, the disaster of Fukushima and the ter-rorist attacks in Morocco, to name a few, show that the world is not only changing at rapid speed, but is also upside down.

I am not too surprised about the events in the Middle East be-cause of my own background of coming from former East Germany. My parents were 41 years old when brave East Germans brought down the infamous Wall that divided my nation and the European conti-

nent. They, having five children, had basically to start from the scratch again. The changes hap-pened literally over night, af-

fecting the lives of approximately 16 Million East Germans who had lived under a totalitarian re-gime and paid into a system that - again, over night - appeared to be bankrupt. On the other side, the won-derful events of autumn 1989 paved the way for new opportunities. My parents did not surrender, they accepted the challenge, attended university while working full-time and raising five children, and managed eventu-ally to cope with the new system. I believe that people who have con-tributed in bringing down the Wall can handle any challenge.

This amazing country expe-rienced its own revolution in 1989 and our young Romanian par-ticipants can be very proud of it! If there is a lesson to be learned from these events, it would surely be that every generation has to invent itself again. Therefore, I urge you to be

We are currently residing in a glo-balised, interconnected world that is changing constantly and in which unimaginable events happen.

“Conrad ReinSecretary General of the Oradea International Model United Nations

flexible, open-minded and ready for any unimaginable challenge that may occur in the future. You have already taken the first step with your participation in ORADMUN.

I would like to share with you - as usual at such conferences - that the participation in a Model UN saves you reading 100 books and you return back home with new inspirations and new, life-long friendships.

Please take advantage of ORADMUN and consider its framework as an opportunity to start you career into diplomacy here and right now.

The Diplomatic HeraldFriday, May 13, 20114 SeCURITY COUNCIL

united nations security council reforms becomes a hot topic

Young delegates are willing to change the world

Delegates want change; their proposal are total equal in some points and total un-equal in other points

At the very first meeting from OradMun, the ses-sion of debates from Se-

curity Council was conducted by the chair-persons: Thomas Reese and Julia Katharina Klein, starting with the introduction of each par-ticipant that represented a country. For a briefly view of what it will be going to be discussed, the partici-pants made an exercise of how UN debates is going to look like. The countries discussed about Public

Transportation in Oradea, and they all agreed that it shouldn’t be con-sidered the free travel for passenger, along with the modernization of means of transport.

The discussions continued with the position papers of each delegate, presenting the impor-tance of Security Council in main-taining the world’s peace order and the importance of extension of the Council and increasing the number of permanent member states. All participant states were sharing the same opinion regarding the neces-sary reform of Security Council by extending also the members of UN and permanent members. One of the disagreements that were facing was concerning the criteria of ac-cession and the states that should become permanent; the opinion views were different from delegate to delegate. China’s position was

to maintain the actual perma-nent member and Brazil has expressed the opinion that p e r m a n e n t members should change each year.

Other res-olution accepted by all delegates was related to UN roles adapt-ed to contempo-rary problems. India has brought into discussion the active role that UN should play in anti-terrorism fight and Nigeria has expressed its interest to become a permanent member.

The meeting had some strong unanimity conclusions; the young

delegates are willing to reform and changing the world. They also con-cluded that they could agree with “group” of permanent members and all other topics; all discussion can lead to friendship and coopera-tion.

by corina gui and felicia ivan

United Nations Guards during the

inauguration of the mural done the Peace Hans

Erni.UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre

All representatives states shares the opinion of reforming the Security Council and extension of UN“Security Council

The Diplomatic HeraldFriday, May 13, 2011 5HUMAn RIGHTS COUNCIL

russia takes the lead in the Human rights council

After the rules were read by the Delegates they have a short exercise on : “women

are better then men”. All the coun-tries agreed that all the human be-ings are equal. Uganda pointed out the fact that women are not better but different.

The session began, Russia asked a change in the order of the topic debates. They started with the topic B: “Review progress of the millennium development goal, goal nr eight: a global partnership for development”. Each country pre-sented its opinion issued the global development goal. Russia seemed to be the leader as it called for the other countries to make an alliance in order to help poor and underde-veloped countries to make a step forward. Russia asked for help as it recognize it has not have interna-tional voice to do it alone.

The countries that responded to Russia’s call were : Argentina, Uk, Uganda, Brazil ,Norway, Belgium, Japan, USA, India and France. In this way Russia seems to be the su-preme coordinator and all the other countries offer their support , ideas and resources.

by sergiu silaghi and alina Oros

Women are better then men! Show off“The Female Delegates

Russian Prime Minister to put

poor people out of their misery

different but not unequalA black woman in Cross Roads, South Africa, prepar-ing a meal.

UN Photo/P Mugabane

The Diplomatic HeraldFriday, May 13, 20116 AFRICAn UnIOn

In the first day of simulation the chairs of the African Union Committee made a short introduction in order to explain to the delegates the rules of procedure.

by alexandra gozman popand marinela danciu

“Have you ever seen a man tell-ing the truth?”

In the first day of simulation the chairs of the African Union Committee made a short intro-

duction in order to explain to the delegates the rules of procedure.

After that there were pro-posed two topics for the debate as an exemple for a better understand-ing.The topics are :’’Who tells more

lies?’’ and ’’Santa Claus should come or not to African children?’’.The majority of the delegates voted for the first topic.

Egypt and South Africa were the first two countries who enroled to the speaker list. Both of them have sustained very well their point of view by giving exemples.The delegate of Egipts stated at the be-ginning of her speach that men lies more than women:”Have you ever seen a man telling the truth?’’ . She seemed to be somehow against the man: “The man are the people who

The man are the people who lie the most“Despicable sexist

lie the most’’.In reply, South Africa’s opinion was that :’’Female lie most-ly all the time’’ ,and the most used pretext for not doing something is the headache.In order to sustain its point of view, Egypt asked South Africa how frequent are used the pretexts: ’’I have a headache’’ (by women) and ’’I have to go to soccer with my friends’’ (by men). South Africa refused to answer this ques-tion.

All the delegates were very active at the debate and understood the rules of procedures in real time.

This day was a great one for everybody and step by step the delegates will im-prove their way of sustaining differ-ent issues.

exibit a

emil Boc

The Diplomatic HeraldFriday, May 13, 2011 7InTeRVIeW

Today is a very impor-tant event taking place here in the University of Oradea in Romania. A number of delegates from different parts of the world have gath-ered here to take part in the International Model United Nations, OradMUN 2011.

The Diplomatic Herald: Standing right next to me is Miss Julia Klein, from near Cologne, in Germany; she plays the role as co-chair of the United Nations Security Council. Miss Julia, thank you very much for being here and welcome to Romania!

Julia Klein: Thank you. It’s a pleasure for me to be here.

The Diplo-matic Herald: What and where are you studying right now?

JK: I’m cur-rently studying in Scotland; I’m doing a Masters of Arts and Management Studies at European Legal Studies. Be-sides that, I love to travel and I love art and cultures. I was living in Seattle, San Diego and Hawaii, United States, and now I live in Scotland. It’s a pleasure for me to be here, and to be a participant of the

Model United Nations Conference in Oradea.

I used to live in San Diego in 2006, for the purpose of a High School exchange, so I was visiting, basically, a High School while I was living in a host family. Then, I went back to Germany to finish my High School degree, and after that, I went to Seattle, to study for two quarters, for the spring quarter. After a time, I moved to Hawaii, at the Hawaiian Pacific University, and it was a great experience for me, mainly because I met a lot of people from all around the world. I kept in touch with them and recently I visited some of my best friends in Colombia. I hope the Model United Nations here in Oradea brings us the same thing: that we’ll have friendships all over the world.

TDH: Why did you choose the position of chairperson in the UNSC?

JK: I personally think it is im-portant to have strict guidelines in a debate and in general, I just love to moderate discussions, that’s why I

chose to become a chairperson in the Security Council. Other than that, the Security Council is the

by cristian iuhoş

profile of a chairperson:

an interview with Julia klein, co-chair of the unsc

most important body of the United Nations - so I can be very proud that I have become a chairperson in that committee!

TDH: How do you like it here in Oradea?

JK: I think Oradea is a really nice city, the people are very friend-ly, and also the traditional Roma-nian food is really delicious.

TDH: Tell us about your hob-bies.

JK: I play tennis, I do a lot of sports, do athletics and I like to travel. I love to hang out with friends and to go out to parties.

TDH: How do you think the

I love to travel and I love art and cultures. It’s a pleasure for me to be in Oradea and to be a participant in the Model United Nations Confer-ence in Oradea.

“Julia KleinCo-chair of United Nations Security Council

debate is going in the UNSC by now?

JK: The debate is going very well, it’s actually better than I ex-pected it to go, the delegates are very passionate and very eager to learn. Even if it’s their first MUN participation, they’re doing a great job, and I’m confident we will get a good output at the end of these ses-sions.

TDH: Thank you very much for your time Julie, it is a great pleasure to have you featured in The Diplomatic Herald.

JK: Thank you too!

Julia kleinCo-chair of United Nations Security Council

8 The Diplomatic HeraldFriday, May 13, 2011 GOSSIP

I think this simulation give me the can chance to be for three days in the rol of people who are building today’s international soci-ety. I’m grateful to the or-ganisers that they bring us professionals chairmens and I’m the enjoing inter-national atmphere.

This first day of debates was pretty much ok. I hope we will reach a nice conclusion. Our main problem is if Germany, South Africa, India, Russia will be or not permanent members of the Security Council.

I have a great impression regarding this day. I was a bit nervous at the begin-ning. I have learned very much things after a few hours. I could get involved in the debates but not as much as the great powers.

Debates were pretty much inspiring, my first impres-sion is a positive one. We have to arrive to a consens regarding the permanent members issue.

The delegates seem to be very well prepared. I felt that each one was a bit nervous. After a few min-utes the emotions dissa-peared. From my point of view Russia and The United States of America are managing very godd the issues.

My opinion about this event is that it is an expe-rience very useful because it helps us to express our own opinions, to develop knowledge about African countries, meet new peo-ple. I like the social events as well because there is a lot of fun.

This MUN is something new for me, interesting in the same time. In this way I will be able to have an opinion about the UNO. It is very toughtful and also an open - wide experience of life.

I really liked this first day. Eve-rybody is nice, friendly and the debates are go-ing well. Norway is powerful in the sense that he told me that he wants to attack other countries (especially Rus-sia). We want to convince the others to act as democratic as possible.

Eliza Vaș

Delegate of Egipt

Michael Egbujieonuma

Delegate of India

Korosi Tunde

Delegate of Columbia Talpoș

Cristian

Delegate of South Africa

Marina Sergiu Florin

Delegate of Nigeria

Moldovan Andreea

Delegate of Ethiopia

Bodea Georgiana

Delegate of Angola

Szutor Brigitta

Delegate of Russia

germany has no friends... despite their impac-able sense of humor

Opinion of delegatesinterviews by alexandra gozman pop photos by alex Bratis

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