EMUN 2024
COLEGIO DEL SOLAR
WRITING PIECES
01 Policy Statement
02 Resolution
03 Speech
POLICY STATEMENTS
As part of your MUN preparation you will write a brief but
comprehensive statement of the policy of your country on each
of the issues you personally will be dealing with.
COMPONENTS
Bear in mind that a policy statement consists of five parts in which you:
01 04
Explain and define the issue and its most State the country’s general position on the
important terms. issue.
02 05
Provide a short summary of recent international Make suggestions of your own that are in line
action related to the issue. with your country’s policies to provide a
solution to the issue.
03
Refer to key documents that relate to the issue.
Make sure your policy statement does not exceed 300 words.
MALE SURE YOUR STATEMENT
ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS...
01 What is the background to your country’s point of view on the issue?
02 What is your country’s current position on the issue?
03 What does it hope to achieve in relation to the issue?
You can also think about answering this question:
04 What have other member states that share my country’s view done in this area?
Key document
Country's position
RESOLUTIONS
A resolution is initially a formal statement of a proposal to a UN
Council, Committee or Commission. It consists of one long, but
coherent, sentence divided into clauses and sub-
clauses. A resolution should not represent the position of one
country but rather of a majority of the UN member states.
HOW TO WRITE A RESOLUTION
The resolutions consist of two parts:
Preambulatory clauses
01 This is the introduction to the resolution.
In this part you include:
References to other resolutions
Facts and figures to illustrate the issue
Emphasis on the difficulties encountered in the past.
Operative clauses
02 Here you present solutions to the issue. Make sure these proposals work and represent the ideology of the
country you represent.
You can’t:
Propose or welcome new situations.
Support or refuse new proposals.
Confirm or regret what it is happening already.
PREAMBULATORY PHRASES
OPERATIVE PHRASES
PREAMBULATORY
CLAUSES
OPERATIVE
CLAUSES
Write down the
forum you belong to Copy the issue of
the resolution
Write down the name of your
delegation country or organisation
There is a line-space
Opening verb of between each clause
each clause is
underlined Each preambulatory clause
is followed by a comma
Each operative
clause IS numbered
Each operative clause is
followed by a semicolon
There is only one full stop, that is, at the END of the resolution.
SPEECH
An opening speech, should last 1 minute. In this minute, you
should address very clearly to the audience the position of the
country/organisation you represent on the primary concerns
about the state of the world.
DOS AND DON'TS
DO DON'T
01 01
address the President of the GA and the
try to be funny. Keep it diplomatic.
delegates present by starting your speech,
saying something like: ‘Honourable President,
Distinguished Delegates’
02 02
open your speech with a strong sentence to attend the forum without practising the delivery
gain audience attention. of your speech.
03 03
speak slowly and clearly. Have the speech worry about making mistakes. No one is perfect
timed and see that it does not exceed the time. and that's completely fine!
WHO IS WHO?
In a diplomatic setting such as this one, it's important to know
certain vocabulary so that you can use it and also understand
what it means when you hear it from somebody else.
The chairman or chairperson is the one conducting the debate and
THE CHAIR maintaining order while remaining totally impartial.
THE HOUSE All the members of the forum except the chairman.
The person who is proposing the motion in the form of
THE SUBMITTER a draft resolution for debate.
The proposal for debate, which will eventually be voted upon.
THE MOTION
A POINT OF A question directed either to the speaker who has the floor or to
the chairman by a delegate of the house who has been duly
INFORMATION recognised by the chairman.
A POINT A question directed to the chairman by a delegate of the house who
feels that a mistake has been made in the order of debate or who
OF ORDER requires clarification of the rules of procedure.
A POINT OF
A question directed to the chairman by a delegate who refers to
PERSONAL the comfort and well-being of the house (e.g.: audibility,
temperature in the house).
PRIVILEGE
TO HAVE
To have been given the right to speak in debate before the house.
THE FLOOR
TO YIELD To give up one’s right to the floor either finally or temporally for a
point of information to be asked.
THE FLOOR
