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P R O T O C O L

SOCHUM General Assembly Third Committee:

Social, Humanitarian & Cultural

Jorge Alejandro González Galicia Ariadna Gabriela Martínez Leal President Moderator

Dayzu Mayummi Anzaldo Hernández Conference Officer

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

THE THIRD COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SOCIAL

CULTURAL AND HUMANITARIAN (SOCHUM) PROTOCOL

MONUUAM 2016

LEGALITY:

The rules of all committees and this Protocol are self- sufficient except for any kind

of modification made by the Secretariat. This must be considered and notified to all

participants before the beginning of any session during the Model. Any other rules

of procedure cannot be applied.

LANGUAGE:

The official language at the Model of United Nations of the Autonomous

Metropolitan University on its 4th edition (MONUUAM 2016) would be Spanish,

except for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and The Third Committee of

the General Assembly Social Cultural and Humanitarian (SOCHUM) where the

official language will be English.

QUOTES:

The participants in this committee would be named as “Delegates” or

“Delegations”.

MONUUAM 2016 SECRETARIAT

Article 1: The Secretariat would be the last decision instance of this Model. They

will translate and interpret this Protocol they will also maintain the faculty to answer

any non-expected issue that is not stated within the Protocol.

Article 2: The Secretariat will veil for this Protocol. They would have the

responsibility to give solutions to all conflicts that the Model could face and will

impose the disciplinary measures required when any of the norms are violated1.

Article 3: The Secretariat at any time can formulate any type of written or verbal

statement to any of the committees in session.

Article 4: The Secretary General will be in charge of declaring the inauguration

and closure of the Model.

Article 5: The attributions of the Secretary General and her Secretariat will be the

following:

a) To moderate the various committees if they find found necessary.

b) Will facilitate the negotiation between the representatives and will

collaborate with them in the Model with the capacity to actively intervene.

c) At least one of members of the Secretariat will have to compose the

Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions.

d) The Secretary General can entrust all or part of her duties to any other

authority of the Model after notifying the members in charge of the

committees and the participants of the Model (if she finds necessary).

d.i) The General Secretary as a guide of the member states will be

the voice of the international community. With her signature we can

validate the treaties, pacts bilateral or multilateral realized with the

visible to obtain diplomacy.

1 The measures could be applied to any person present within the development of the Model. (Delegates,

faculties, observers, etc.)

e) The Secretary General can permit the entrance of observers to the different

locations of the Model.

ATTRIBUTIONS OF THE AUTHORITIES INSIDE EACH COMMITTEE

Article 6: The Chair will represent the maximum authority within the committees.

The Third Committee of the General Assembly Social Cultural and

Humanitarian (SOCHUM) will be composed of:

a) President

b) Moderator

c) Conference Officer

Article 7: The capacities of the President or Secretary General are the following:

a) The President is the figure with the maximum authority providing them with

the right to declare the opening and closure of each formal session.

b) Will lead the discussions in the sessions.

c) Will assure the fulfillment of the regulation and rules of procedure.

d) Will coordinate the right to have the word.

e) Can question any of the participants within the committee and will announce

the dissentions that are established in the committee.

f) Will be part of the Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions.

g) Will be Responsible to maintain order in his committees.

Article 8: The Presidents can directly decide upon:

a) The time frame of the speaker.

b) The closure of the Speakers List.

c) Closure of the Debate.

d) Suspension or postpone the session.

e) The order in which the Possible Draft Resolution, Draft Resolution,

Resolution are handed in.

f) Recognizing a Delegation to join the debate.

g) Recognizing and yielding the word to any of the authorities of the Model

when necessary.

h) Recognizing the role change of any member of the Chair, only if necessary.

(The only figure who will not be able to change the role will be the

President).

i) The suspension of the Point of Personal Privilege, Point of Order, Point of

Parliamentary Inquire, Motion of Procedure and the use of Diplomatic Notes

only if found pertinent by the Chair.

j) Allow or forbid the entrance to an observer or faculty.

k) Return a Position Paper to any Delegate who doesn’t fit the academic

standards stated on the manual.

l) Can consider the expulsion of the session or the Model of a Delegate

according to the amount of Warnings that they have accumulated.

Article 9: The faculties of the Moderator are the following:

a) Will be in charge of moderating the debate and to maintain diplomacy and

respect within the forum.

b) In case the President is absent during any time of a working sessions the

attributions of the President will be handed down to the Moderator.

c) Will assist the Presidency in their functions during the development of the

sessions.

d) Will be part of the Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions in which he

or she will revise and evaluate them in order for them to be presented.

Article 10: The attributions of the Conference Officer will be the following:

a) Realize the Role call at the begging of each session.

b) Will assist the Presidency in the formal sessions.

c) Register the votes of each Delegation.

d) Resolve the inconvenience that any Delegation may face.

e) Facilitate the communication between the Delegates and the Chair with

the use of Diplomatic Notes if the President allows it, having the facility to

receive the Diplomatic Notes from an Usher and to determine if they’re

appropriate.

f) Will coordinate the work of the Ushers and will be in charge of having a

detailed registry of all that occurred during the working sessions.

g) While the Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions is in session the

Conference Officer will be in charge of moderating the debate.

Article 11: The attributions of the Ushers are the following:

a) Help out with the functions of the Conference Officer.

b) Solve any personal problems that a Delegate may have.

c) Facilitate the dialog between the Chair and the Delegates threw Diplomatic

Notes, which will be given to the Conference Officer who will determine if

the content is appropriate, if so they will seek the approval of the President

before responding to the message.

Article 12: The Chair alongside the Ushers will be in charge of arranging the

forum before the debate.

Article 13: Of the Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions will be composed

of the President, Moderator and one of the Secretariat of MONUUAM 2016.

The attributions of the Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions will be the

following:

a) Receive and revise the Draft Resolutions in order for it to meet the

expected criteria of form and coherency in order for it to be voted.

DELEGATIONS, INDEPENDENT DELEGATES AND FACULTIES

Article 14: Each Delegation must be composed of at least one faculty and as

many Delegates that the Delegation may have. The Faculty will be the student,

professor or person who is a head of the Delegation. Must be there during the days

of the Model and oversee the debates if the Precedency admits it; none the less

they will be strictly forbidden to join the debates or to maintain direct contact with

the Delegates during the sessions, they will only be able to have contact with the

Chair2.

Article 15: The participants of each committees will be referred to as: “Member

States”, “Representation” or “Delegation”.

Article 16: In each committee where there is a ‘’Member State’’ they must be

represented by at least one Delegate and not more than two (Co-Delegation). In

case of the Co-Delegations they will only be able to have discreet contact among

one another and both must rise and establish speeches together in each

intervention.

Article 17: The representatives that do the following will not be able to enter the

premises:

a) Don’t have their corresponding identifications (badges).

b) Break the code of conduct.

Article 18: The observers that have been previously registered will have access to

the different committees of the Model. The access will be PROHIBITED to the

ones who don’t have the accurate ID. The observers cannot have any form of

contact with the Delegates.

2 This article makes reference to the consultations that may intervene with the performance of the delegate

Article 19: With the visible to provide a satisfactory event at the end of each day

there will be a Faculty Meeting where we will have feedback with the Secretary

General, Secretaries Specialized in Committees, Secretary of Communications

and Secretaries of Logistics.

CODE OF CONDUCT

These rule maintain the order, formality and courtesy for the development of the

Model.

Article 20: The treatment that the Delegates and faculties must have among

themselves, the Organizing Committee and the Secretariat must be completely

formal and respectful during the activities of the Model.

a) The Delegates must maintain a Diplomatic Posture at all times. A Diplomatic

Posture makes reference toward having a respectful posture approaching

the forum reflected on the accurate vocabulary on an international forum.

Article 21: The participants of MONUUAM 2016 will respect the dress code that

the Secretariat determines.

Article 22: The Delegates cannot leave the premises (building) if their committee

is in a formal session. If needed the Delegate must notify their Chair for the reason

of their absence.

Article 23: The Agenda established by the Secretariat of the Model must be

followed, except when they make a modification.

Article 24: The use of electronic devices that may intervene with the flow of the

debate is prohibited except for those Delegates that have authorization from their

President. The only electronic devices allowed are the once that can be used for

reading without internet access3

3 This article make reference to the use of cellular devices, if the use of these devices is need it most be

consulted by an authority of the Model or member of the Organizing Committee that will assist on these measures.

Article 25: The Delegates cannot eat, drink or smoke within the headquarters of

the different committees with the exception of bottled water.

Article 26: It is strictly forbidden to consume ALCOHOL DRINKS and/or to

arrive drunk to the Model. If surprised doing so they will be expulsed for the Model

immediately without the right of explanation.

Article 27: Smoking will not be allowed within Rectoría General with the exception

of the assigned areas.

Article 28: Littering is forbidden.

Article 29: Every participant of MONUUAM 2016 must respect the reglament of

the premises, in case they are not respected accordingly the Organizing

Committee will take the pertinent measures and it must be respected.

DRESS CODE

The dress code for the participants in MONUUAM 2016 must be formal.

Article 30: For men the use of suites, tie and dress shoes is considered

appropriate.

Article 31: For women the use of pants suit or dress pants will be adequate; the

use of dresses or skirts will be appropriate only if it is at most 4 fingers above the

knees. Heels or flats are allowed as long as they are formal.

Article 32: The use of shorts, cocktail dresses, miniskirts, trousers, t-shirt, tennis-

shoes or informal shoes and caps are not allowed during the sessions.

Those participants that would like to make use of the typical attire of the

Delegation they are representing must request it previously to their Chair4.

PLAGIARISM

4 In this case the Chair can be contacted by electronic means with our social media, in case the Chair doesn’t

give a response the delegation must contact the Secretariat.

Article 33: Plagiarism is consider as taking a third persons ideas and establishing

them as their own, weather it is in the making of a Position Paper or a Draft

Resolution. In case to be found in this, the first time they will receive a Direct

Warning and will be asked to rectify the document. In case of a second time the

Delegate will be expelled from the Model.

WARNINGS

The Warnings are sanctions imposed by the President to deterrent the

inappropriate behavior.

Article 34: Violating the code of conduct, dress code, interrupting the debate

without the need to, plagiarism, having a disrespectful attitude and showing up to a

session without previous notification, are examples of conducts that will make the

participant accreditor to a waring according to the seriousness of their doing.

Article 35: The Warnings can be accumulated during the 3 days of the debate.

Article 36: In case of obtaining two Warnings in the same session, the Delegate

must leave the committee and will not be able to go back until the begging of the

next session. The participation of a Delegate within the Model will be canceled with

the accumulation of three Warnings in the three days.

POINTS AND MOTIONS

All Delegates can make use of the Points or Motions to request the consideration

of such during the formal sessions, they must establish the Point or Motion that

they would like to make use of.

Article 37: In MONUUAM 2016 there are three types of Points and Motions.

Motions:

1) Motion of Procedure:

2) Motion of Competence

3) Motion of Evidence

Points:

1) Point of order

2) Point of personal privilege

3) Point of parliamentary inquire

Article 38: Motions of procedure.

The Motion of Procedure is used to propose a different option of the regular flow of

the debate.

It’s established by the following specificities:

a) For the Presidency to consider approve the Motion it must at least have one

who seconds the Motion. The Delegation who proposed the Motion cannot

second it.

b) This Motion cannot interrupt any Delegate, the Chair or any member of the

Organizing Committee when they have the word or are in the middle a

procedure, it only be used if the floor is open.

c) The Presidency can accept or deny the Motion; in the case of it being

accepted there will be the need to have a round of voting in which the use of

abstention is accepted. If it obtains the majority plus one votes in favor, the

Motion will be accepted. In case they have the majority plus one of the votes

against it will be denied.

Article 39: Motion of Competence.

A Motion of Competence is the one which a participant will request the Secretary

General or to the Secretaries Specialized in Committees to invalidate an action or

a series of actions of one or more members of the Chair, if they are considered out

of order, incoherent or for not following the Protocol.

This will have to be given to the Chair via Usher as soon is its formally

written, it must include the following:

Two Delegations as the sponsors and the corresponding signatories.

The amount of signatories must be of at least 80% of the participants.

The action or actions that want to be invalidated.

A clear explanation of the situation.

It will be sent to the Secretary General or the Secretaries Specialized in

Committees via Usher.

The Secretary General and/or the Secretaries Specialized in Committees

must give an immediate solution to the Motion of Competence and their

decision is none changeable. They must give their verdict to the whole

committee listening to the whole forum which includes including all

Delegates and all member of the Chair.

During this process the entrance of faculties or observer is absolutely

forbidden

Article 40: Motion of Evidence.

This Motion can be used when a Delegate questions the source of information of

another Delegation and with the means to revise it, the delegate can request to see

the source of information or the explicit content of such information.

This Motion proceeds as following:

It can interrupt the speech of the Delegation providing the supposed

questionable information.

The reasons as to why the everted information is being question must

be listened to.

The President is the only one who can determine if the Motion is in

order. If it’s approved, the Delegate in question will have fifteen

minutes to prove the information, using a reliable source. At this

moment the Chair will provide an electronic device with internet

access.

Threw out these fifteen minutes they will be overviewed by a member

of the Chair to verify that the Delegate is searching for the information

solicited.

In case that the information cannot be proven, the Delegate in question will

be accredited a Direct Warning. On the other hand, if the information

everted is proven to be true the one who solicited the Motion of Evidence

will be the accreditor of the Direct Warning.

Article 41: Point of Order

The point of order is used when a Delegation considers that the Chair or any other

Delegation has committed an error within the procedures of the Protocol or the

Code of Conduct. This shall be made with pointed out with respect.

Article 42: Point of Personal Privilege

-The point of personal privilege can be used when a Delegate considers that they

have been affected by an external cause of any kind.

Article 43: Point of Parliamentary Inquire

-The Point of Parliamentary Inquire is to clarify the procedure that is being taken

during the debate.

-The Point of Parliamentary Inquire will only be in order when the floor is open.

Article 44: Classification of Points and Motions

A. Motions and points that can interrupt the speaker:

I. Point of Personal Privilege

II. Point of Order

III. Motion of Evidence

B. Motions and points that can only be used when the forum is open:

I. Motion of Procedure

II. Point of Parliamentary Inquiry

C. Motions that can only be made by Diplomatic Note:

I. Motion of Competence

II. A Point of Personal Privilege can also be established via Diplomatic

Note.

D. Motions of Procedure that can be applied to Resolutions or amendments

with the consideration of the Chair.

I. Closer of the debate

MAJORITIES

Article 45: There are two types of Majorities used in the parliamentary procedures:

a) Qualified Majority: Represents the vote of two thirds (66.6%) of the present

voting members.

b) Absolute Majority: Represents fifty plus one of the votes of the present

voting members.

DEBATE

Article 46: Procedure for the opening of the debate:

At the begging of the working sessions of each committee the only Motion that

would be in order is a Motion of Procedure to choose the topic to be debated. This

processes is brought out as the following:

Motion of Procedure: to open Topic A or B this Motion has to be second and

voted. The voting can only be in favor or against. (The figure of abstention

will not be in order threw out this process).

In case there are any votes against there will be an extraordinary list of

speakers in favor and against with a maximum of two Delegates per

posture.

The Delegation who established and second the Motion, by courtesy, will

have the right to evert the reason why they are in favor of the opening of the

proposed topic. The ones who voted against will be asked if they would like

to come forward and speak against and only against the opening of the

everted topic.

The time limit per speaker will be of 30 seconds and cannot be changed.

The order of the participations will be alternated for and against until they

have all come forward. This time cannot be yelled.

The Delegations can only speak in favor and only in favor or against and

only against the opening of the topic. There for they cannot make reference

to any other topic.

Once the speeches for and against have been given there will be an

opening of another round of voting to determine the Agenda.

In case the topic is accepted the opening of a speakers list will be in order

threw a Motion of Procedure that will give order to the debate of such topic.

In case that the topic does not pass the second topic will immediately be

opened and will have the same procedure stated above5.

a) The Speakers List must be followed burring the debate except when

it’s suspended by Motions, procedures, Amendments or the

introduction of a Resolution.

Article 47: No Delegate can talk to the forum without the Chair’s consent. The

President or the Moderator will be able to give a Call of Attention to any Delegate

5 If there is a tie in the voting of the opening of a topic, the voting will be redone. If once again there is a tie,

the Chair will decide which topic should be discussed.

making irrelevant statements to the topic being discussed, also if the Delegation

exceeds the limit of time or that their comments are considered to be offensive.

Article 48: The debate will the means of interaction among the Delegations to

adjust the topics of the Agenda. Such debate will be ruled by the present

lineaments in an encounter with the following measures respect, tolerance,

equality, cooperation and good will according to the principals of the UN Charter.

The purpose of the debate will be to get to the elaboration of a Resolution that is

pertinent to the topic, which has to be objective, comprehensive and applicable.

Article 49: The authorities of the mode have the responsibility to orientate in a

non-basis way and a constructive debate under the principles stated above.

Article 50: Modality of the debate:

The debate can have two modalities: Formal and Informal debate.

Article 51: Formal debate:

The formal debate will be the means in which the Presidency will lead the course of

the negotiations:

a) The formal debate will follow a Speakers List which will be elaborated at the

begging of the debate. The Delegations who wish to be in the list can solicit

it by raising their placard when the Chair indicates the opening names or

adding names to the list.

b) The list will be followed by chronological order with the duration that the

Chair has approved previously so that the Delegates can make use of the

word.

Article 52: Informal debate

The informal debate can be used to negotiate or to make a change in the dynamics

of the regular debate. The informal debate can also be referred to as Caucus.

Article 53: There are two variations of the informal debate the Moderated and

Unmoderated.

a) Informal Moderated Debate (Moderated Caucus) will be proposed by a

Motion of Procedure. In which the Speakers List will be temporarily and the

Moderator will be giving the word to the Delegates that would like to make

use of it. This will be done by raising the placard. The Moderated Caucus

will have a determined amount of time, at the end of such time it can be

extended to a second less than the previous one by making a Motion of

Procedure.

b) Informal Unmoderated Debate (Unmoderated Caucus or Simple Caucus)

must be done by a Motion of Procedure. Once it is approved, the Delegates

are able to have a direct and informal conversations among themselves.

During this time the Delegates may not leave the forum unless the Chair is

notified. This informal debate will have a limit time frame that can be

renewed by making a Motion of Procedure. This extension can of at most

one second less than the previous one.

c) During any type of informal debate there must always be a Diplomatic

Posture. If seen otherwise the Chair can give a Warning or a Call of

Attention.

QUORUM

Article 54: The President can declare that the committee is in its faculties to

develop its functions and will allow for the debate to proceed when at least one

fourth of the member states are present.

The absolute majority of the presence of member states will be required for

the voting on substantial criteria.

The Delegates must be present unless they have notified their Chair.

SPEAKERS LIST

Article 55: During the debate there must be an open Speakers List making

reference to the established topic.

A Delegate can add his or her name to the Speakers List as long as their

name isn’t already on it. This can be done by requesting it via Diplomatic

Note or threw a Point of Personal Privilege.

The order of the Speakers List will be projected to the whole committee for

the convenience of the Delegates. In case the Delegates are not participating

the Moderator can choose the speakers by alphabetical or in a non-

alphabetical order to the discretion of the Chair.

Article 56: Time Limit on Speeches

The time limit can be proposed by a Delegation threw a Motion of Procedure

that must be second and voted by an absolute majority. The Chair can

consider this Motion out of order if it’s unnecessary.

The minimum amount of time can be of 30 seconds and the maximum of 90

seconds. Ten to fifteen seconds before the time of the Delegate has

concluded the Conference Officer will discretely let the Delegation know that

the time has almost concluded. Once the time of the speaker has concluded

the Moderator will request the Delegate to take a seat.

In case the Delegate doesn’t end his or her speech once their time has

concluded the Moderator will give them a Direct Warning and must seat

immediately.

Article 57: Yield Time

If a Delegate has been recognized to speak to the quorum and the

Delegation concludes before the time has expired he or she can request for

the time to be yield to one of the four possible forms: to another Delegate,

questions, the Chair or to comments. The time can only be yield once per

speech. If the time has concluded there would be no time to be yield6.

6 If the remaining time is of 15 seconds or more the time can be yield, if it’s less than 15 seconds the Chair

will absorb the time.

a) Yield time to another Delegation: The remaining time of a

speaker can be given to another Delegation as long as it has been

previously arranged among them. In case that the Delegation

doesn’t accept the time the one who yield will get a Warning and

will not be able to yield the time again.

b) Yield time to questions: The remaining time of a speaker can be

used for questions or interpretations. The Delegates who wish to

use these questions must raise their placard they will be called by

the Moderator who will be taking the time frame under

consideration they questions are only limited to one per person.

The Moderator can give a Call of Attention to any Delegate who

asks something inappropriate this must all be within the time

frame of the original speaker.

c) Yield time to the Chair: A Delegate can yield the time to the

Chair if they don’t wish to do anything with the remainder of their

time. This will not affect the flow of the debate and the Chair can

use of this time as their choosing.

d) Yield time to comments: When the time is yield to comments the

Moderator can recognize any Delegation to make a comment.

This must be within the original speaker’s time, in accordance with

the verted speech and must be diplomatic.

Article 58: Extraordinary Session of Questions

Any Delegate can request for an extraordinary session of questions right

after a Delegation has finished their speech.

The Delegate requesting this Motion must establish the number of questions

the other Delegation must answer, having a minimum of two and a maximum

of five questions.

The Motion must first be second by a third party and then accepted by the

Delegation in question. If the Delegation accepts the questions, the will be

voted on in order for them to pass they must have an absolute majority. If it

doesn’t pass the debate will go back to its regular course.

A brief preamble can be established by a Point of Personal Privilege.

It’s in order to have a follow up after every first question as long as it has

something to do with the everted speech or answers given.

RIGHT OF REPLY

Article 59: The Delegation whose national or personal integrity has been offended

by another Delegate can solicit by a Diplomatic Note a Right of Reply.

It must be done by a Diplomatic Note and it must state word by word what

was said, after it must be sent to the Chair.

The President has the authority to determine whether or not this is valid and

the choice is final.

The Delegate who has offended the Delegation must make a public and true

apology. After this any other comment made will be taken as something

grave worthy of a Warning. Any other Delegation with an Undiplomatic

Posture will have a Direct Warning.

A Right of Reply over a Right of Reply is out of order.

POSSIBLE DRAFT RESOLUTIONS

Article 60: The Delegates can propose Possible Draft Resolutions for the

committee to take under consideration. The aim of a Possible Draft Resolution is to

support the flow of the debate and help for the making of a resolution.

Characteristics:

a) Does not need to be on a Resolution format.

b) The name it obtains must have the letter of the topic debated and a

number which will be given according to the order in which they arrive

to the Chair.

c) Require the signatures of at least 33.3% of the Delegates present in

the quorum.

d) A Delegation can be signatory of more than one Possible Draft

Resolution.

e) Signing a Possible Draft Resolution does not mean a Delegation is

for the approval of it, it only states its interest to debate on its content.

f) For a Possible Draft Resolution to be recognized in the forum it must

have the signature of the President. Once the President signs the

document it can be referred to as Draft Resolution. Prior to this it will

only be a Possible Draft Resolution.

The representative that wrote the Possible Draft Resolution and up to two

more sponsors can come to the front and read it to the committee.

The document must be read word by word, in case any Delegation modifies

any of the worlds while reading it, he or she will be accreditor of a Direct

Warning.

After the Draft Resolution has been read, a Motion of Procedure to open an

Unlimited Moderated Caucus or an Unlimited Session of Questions will be in

order. With the only objective of to debate or clear any doubts about the

document.

SPONSORS

Article 61: The Possible Draft Resolution and the Draft Resolution can have a

maximum of five sponsors, all of them must have coordinated the content of the

document. The figure of a sponsor does not represent the total or partial authority

of the ideas in the document nor will it push the Chair to have a preference for

them.

It will be to the discretion of the Chair to cancel the figure of sponsor if they

get on the way of the debate.

DRAFT RESOLUTION

Article 62: The Delegations that wrote the Draft Resolution in order for them to

present it to the Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions must follow the next

characteristics:

Must count with at least 66.6% of the signatures for the present Delegations.

The Delegations can only sign one Draft Resolution per topic debated.

They must focus on the things exposed during Speakers List as well as the

things written on the Possible Draft Resolution

Article 63: The Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions will receive the Draft

Resolution as long as they fulfill the requirements stated on the Format Guide of

Resolutions. The Preliminary Chair of the Possible Resolutions can make

modifications on the format but not the content of the Draft Resolution and

Resolutions everted on the committee.

Article 64: The Draft Resolution will be recognized to the whole forum to be

emended and voted on after debating on it.

Article 65: A Motion of Procedure will be in order to present the Draft Resolution to

the forum. The Chair can recognize a maximum of three Delegations to present the

Draft to the forum.

Article 66: During the reading the Chair will ask the other Delegations to check the

grammar and spelling of the document, they must write down the sentence and

sentence number that needs the correction. These corrections must be sent to the

Chair immediately, they will evaluate which corrections are pertinent and make the

corrections on the final document. This process shouldn’t be taken as the

amendment process.

Article 67: To debate the Draft Resolution there should be an Unlimited Moderated

Caucus.

AMENDMENTS

Article 68: The amendments should add, erase or modify specific parts of the

Draft Resolution. Each Delegation can submit up to one amendment per Draft

Resolution of each topic. The amendments can be of format and not of substance

they cannot change the original essence of the Draft. The use or suspension of the

amendments are up to the decision of the Chair.

Characteristics:

The amendments must be presented orally during the Moderated Caucus

that is strictly for the amendments.

To be presented, the Delegation must request for the word and express

their modification.

Once the conditions are met the Chair will submit the Draft to a Raised

Placard voting. It will be considered accepted if it has the qualified majority

in favor.

PROJECT RESOLUTION

Article 69: For the Draft Resolution to be considered a Resolution it would be

necessary to have a Motion of Procedure to close the debate. This will be up to the

Chair, it must be seconded and voted on.

Article 70: The use of any Resolutions or Draft Resolutions that have already been

debated on the United Nations or any Model United Nations is strictly prohibited,

they may only be used as guide lines to create a new one by the whole forum.

CLOSURE OF THE DEBATE

Article 71: Any Delegation can make the Motion of Procedure to close the debate

of the topic. When the closure of the debate is proposed the Moderator can

recognized up to two Delegations to speak against the closure of this topic. No

Delegations in favor will be recognized.

The closure of the debate requires the absolute majority in favor, only of the

present voting members. In case the forum is in favor of closing the debate,

the President will declare the closure of the debate. From that moment on

the Draft Resolution will be voted to become a Resolution.

The Chair will then recognize two Delegations to speak for and against the

document. Once this has concluded the document will be submitted to a

formal round of voting.

VOTING BY FORMAL LIST

Article 72: After the debate has been closed, there will be a voting on the

Resolution, this voting will be preferably done by listing but it can also be done in

the order that the Chair considers appropriate. The observers cannot participate

during this process and must leave the forum. In this process the Conference

Officer will collect the voted by alphabetical orders in the following ways:

a) First round: During the First round the Delegations can vote in favor,

against, abstention or pass. Those Delegations who voted in favor or

against have the right to request a right of explanation. The Delegations who

passed on their vote must stipulate it at the next round of voting. The

Delegations who requested for a right of explanation at the end of the first

round of voting will be asked to come forward and evert their reason.

b) Second round: In this round the votes can only be in favor, against or

abstention. The Delegations that voted for or against can request a right of

explanation following the previous format.

c) Third round: In this round there will only be votes in favor and against. The

President will be the one stating weather the Resolution assed or not once

the Conference Officer has calculated the votes.

Article 73: No member Delegation can leave or enter the forum during the process

of the closure and voting rounds.

RESOLUTION

Article 74: When the result of the formal voting of the Project Resolution has been

in favor, the document can be referred to as the Resolution of the topic in question.

In case the voting is against the document, it will be referred to as not approved

Project Resolution.

If the Project Resolution is not approved the debate will continue on the

same topic until a Resolutions that fulfills the needs of each Delegation is

met. The debate must be opened again by a Motion of Procedure.

Article 75: Once the official outcome of the voting has been announced there will

be a five minute break. Once the time is over the forum must go on to the next

topic or in case the vote was against the document then to the original topic.

Article 76: In case there are two more topics left over in the Agenda then the

procedure to open a topic should be made.

POSITION PAPER

Article 77: Every Delegation that is participating in a committee must give a

position paper to the Chair on the first session. If not they will have until the first

session of the second day to had it in. If they don’t have it by them they will be

accreditor to a Direct Warning and will NOT have the opportunity to obtain an

academic prize of any kind within the Model. The Delegation must take the

responsibility to write the position paper with time. The evaluation of the position

papers is a crucial focus point in the decisions for the academic prizes. Being that

the case any plagiarism is considered grave and will lead to the automatic

suspension of any prize to that Delegation.