Last week, the delegates have been debating once more the Afghanistan Crisis. The climax of the session was reached just briefly after the session began, with China declaring war on St Vincent and the Grenadines, which has been baptized accordingly St Violence and the Grenades. Meanwhile, a new crisis has arisen in the Mediterranean that…

Last week’s session in its bizarreness can be better summarized by the memes in the random than this short summary, but to keep it short one must only mention a bilateral treaty between France and St Vincent and the Grenadines that was for whatever reason presented to the council. It entails the sale of French submarines,…

The last session saw Tunisia’s dreams of introducing a draft resolution being shattered. The member states declared the resolution void in an election with a narrow, yet clear result against the paper. Meanwhile, rumors have been circulating that most European states are forming a bloc to push the Greco-Turkish conflict over the Afghanistan crisis, as…

Last week’s session has seen Working Papers cascading from different delegations. What had initially started as a discussion about the US American Working Paper introduced the week before, the debate soon followed by the introduction of a Tunisian WP. Being very brief and limited in its content, the text nevertheless sparked many discussions across the…

After the progressive talks two weeks ago had culminated in the proclamation of Draft Resolution 1, last week the debate stood on the brink of being closed. At that point, delegates decided to give a glance at the resolution’s content. Points 4 and 5, which state among others that Serbia recognises Islam while Kosovo was…

With MUN EPFL joining our sessions last week, the number of delegates grew larger with Greece and Croatia joining the Kosovo-Serbia peace talks. In comparison to the previous session, the general atmosphere changed from hard negotiation towards adopting a rather moderate tone. Both Serbia and Kosovo loosened their uncompromising rhetoric by waiving some of their…

The second Zoom Session led to a more organized debate then expected. The bigger countries like Russia, China and the USA have finally joined into a consensus of solidarity, actually listening to each other’s ideas, instead of dismissing them with caustic reproach. Although the divide caused by bloc-mentality has noticeably weakened, Kosovo‘s and Serbia‘s attitudes…

Last week’s MUN session was the first this semester to have been moved to zoom. The number of delegates has reduced and the tensions have increased. Communication has been hindered not only by the lack of direct contact, and the inconvenience of break out rooms for unmoderated caucuses, but also due to the increased return…

In its seventh session, the WTO General Council began debating the issue of Intellectual Property Rights and their position in a digitalized world. Some members, such as Mexico, were keen to point to the issue of inequality between the rights’ owners and users. They were eager to strengthen users’ positions in an effort to protect…

After decades of diplomatic gridlock and stagnancy, powered mainly by the determination of the United States to keep Iran isolated, the Iranian Delegation finally came forward with an astute proposition for the accession of Iran to the WTO. Having laid out a solid foundation of trust in the previous session among many delegations as well as…