M.U.N. 3/17 - 3/20

     3/17
Opening committee session began very slowly as decorum seemed difficult to establish. Once the first unmoderated caucus began, Liz and I immediately began searching for our potential allies in order to get Topic B (Eastern European development) to be the topic of choice.  A few delegates seemed not to have done their research because a number of Eastern european countries voted against their own development. topic A was chosen as a result and Macedonia's involvement was slightly limited.

     3/18
Committee opened today and discussion immediately began regarding how best to approach peacekeeping efforts in Darfur. Macedonia has little involvement in Darfur, minus the fact that the one point Macedonia does feel strong on (ICC's decision to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes) is supported by few other countries, so allies were hard to make. We did, however, sign a draft paper with India because it seemed to be the most comprehensive.

     3/19
Draft resolutions came out this morning, only to discover that all contained motions to remove the warrant for President al-Bashir's arrest. This was Macedonia's only strongly felt point, After passing a lot of notes, Liz and I managed to strike a deal with Germany, to ensure that the country would use its pull to make sure an amendment was created to remove the clause. We debated with Mexico because yesterday they had said that no provisions would be made as to the removal of the clause, but when the draft resolutions came out, a clause was added. Liz and I decided that Macedonia was forced to remove its name for the list of sponsors.

     3/20
Closing committee session was fairly uneventful, seeing as Macedonia was forced to vote against almost every resolution from SPECPOL. In terms of ECOFIN and DISEC, Macedonia seemed to do very well despite not having a lot of resources or diplomatic weight.