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• Editorial

• First-timer experience

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• Committee Reports

• Chair disclosure

• Journo-Awards

• Common Secrets

• Party time

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EDITORIAL:

Dear Muners,

T h i s is the last commun issue and the last editorial respec-

tively….

T h e journalists and myself hope you had a constructive

conference. That the ThessISMUN experience, was an educational as

well entertaining experience! Our only advice is that you continue to

participate in such conferences and you maybe come again next year?

In any case the ThessISMUN family has a big enough hug for all of its

members!

Now the thanking part! The journalist team is extremely grateful

to the secretariat, chairs and administrative staff for all their help and

comments during the creation of this “newspaper”. Secondly I would

like to thank all you delegates for giving us the necessary uncommon information for the content of

this newspaper! Finally I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart the members of the jour-

nalist team : Maria, Chrysoula, Valia, Maro, Filippia, Dimitris, Michalis, Khatsig, Angeliki, amd

Athina. But most of all my right hand Marina and left hand Zafeiris! I love you guys!

I sincerely hope you liked our newspaper honorable delegates!

See you next year!

Sophia

ThessISMUN experience after 4 days

First of all I would like to note that

ThessISMUN is a great institution and I hope

that I will be able to participate next year too.

The whole conference is exemplary, regarding

the organization, and it demonstrates that

young people know very well how to work

with each other. This is the place where older

people must come and watch the attitude of

young people in and out of the classrooms in

order to change their minds about the behavior

of a part of today’s youth. I do not believe that

the fact that they pay to participate has any

relevance with their behavior since we all

know how much we pay generally for educa-

tion and the quality of education we receive.

Secondly, the education you receive

through the conference when you learn how

different organizations work as for example

the council of Europe or the Security Council is irreplaceable and one of a kind. Furthermore a lot of

preparation is required as well as a certain level of knowledge in order to be able to understand the

topics and the different procedures of the simulation. In my opinion you must be well prepared if

you really want to have a respectable participation in an MUN.

Next, I would like to note something about the use of English. For me it’s the first time I par-

ticipate in such a conference and I was impressed. An all-English simulation is an important educa-

tional factor despite the fact that for some it is something that they do not give much significance to.

Finally, it’s important to comprehend that in our lives we all are part, and have to function

within a chain of command and respect. This chain exists also in ThessISMUN. On the one hand you

have the chain of hierarchy between delegates and chairs and chairs with the secretariat. And on the

other hand respect between all participants regardless of their position is obligatory since it is also

referred to as “diplomatic courtesy” in the rules.

I believe that in life obtaining experiences and educating yourself with any means possible is

very important to survive! Here is a place where you can work on your character and teach yourself.

By Dimitris Konstantinidis

• Secretary -General Ban Ki-Moon dispatches special envoy to Kyrgystan.

• Haiti: Agencies team up to relocate displaced at risk in petionville camp.

• Deputy Secretary-General to travel to Haiti, focus on sexual violence.

• Sudan: head of peacekeeping concerned over aspects of electoral environment.

• Flow of people crossing Gulf of Aden is slowing. • New round of U.N. climate change negotiations start in

Germany. • Secretary -General chairs chief executives board in

Vienna. • Secretary -General to discuss Non-proliferation initia-

tives in Washington . • Deputy special envoy to Haiti ended assignment in

March.

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1st Committee

The third day of the 1st committee's ses-

sions started with delegates arriving with a sig-

nificant delay obviously due to last night's

party! Among them, China's and Philippines'

delegates were half an hour late while Syria's

delegate was the last to join the house with one

hour delay.

During the sessions of the 1st committee,

the draft resolution sponsored by the Peoples

Republic of China was overruled mostly due to

the fact that the Chinese delegate did not really

stick to the very policy of his government. As a

result, we saw the withdrawal of three signatory

countries. Pakistan played a very energetic role

on this crucial issue of discussing effective in-

ternational arrangements to assure non-nuclear

weapon states against the use or threat of use of

nuclear weapons. In the meanwhile, Peru's dele-

gate's Simpson tie gave an entertaining tone to

the entire procedure! In the end, the first com-

mittee of the General Assembly voted and

passed the draft resolution sponsored by the

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern

Ireland.

Au revoir! By Michalis Konstantinidis

2nd Committee

Yes! It's true!! The 2nd Committee was not only

the best one of this year's conference, but it was

also the best of its kind during the 9-year history of

ThessIS MUN.

The second committee did a great job-again- by

making a perfect Draft Resolution on topic area B,

which was voted unanimously (by each 58 dele-

gates)!

Of course there were a few accidents, which made

everyone laugh!!(China will understand!!)

Many delegates were late during the first commit-

tee session, as last night everyone attended the

wonderful party at Figaro! As a result, a lot of

chocolates were brought for the board! All of them

were shared between the delegates as a gift for the

"funny awards", which had a great success!! Worth

mentioning is the Award of Best Diplomat, given

to the delegate of Chile and that of Best Tie, given

to the delegate of Germany, on whose ties there

was a whole scenario in place...!!!

Hope to see you again all next year!

By Filippia Cheilitsi

Human Rights Council

During the last day of discussion the delegates worked

on topic area B. Firstly the Committee kept one minute

of silence, in order to express their sorrow, regarding the plane tragedy that was announced.

Afterwards, the representative of the UK introduced it’s Draft Resolution to the house. The repre-

sentatives talked on the amendments that according to them were needed as well as on the clauses

they wanted to add. During the Session, the U.S.A. and the Russian Federation were accused for the

violation of Human Rights. The representative of Russian Federation responded that “All states in

this room have violated Human Rights. We’re not here to point fingers but to find a solution for the

promotion of international solidarity”. The majority of the Delegates found U.K.’s draft interesting,

though suggested the addition of new clauses or the alteration of others.Finally this resolution passed

with 37 votes in favor and 6 against.

Afterwards, China and Bolivia raised a competence against the UK’s proposal, which finally

failed. At the end of the Session the members of the Council voted on the funny awards. In specific,

the most likely to become a dictator “title” was awarded to China, who was additionally nominated

as the funniest Delegate. The Representative of Cameroon received three awards: most beautiful, best

dressed and the one with the best hair. The Council’s Chair was voted as the most handsome, while

the Delegate of the U.S.A. was considered to be the sexiest and with the best tie. A really interesting

Council’s Session came to an end! By Athina Tsakalidou

1st

2nd

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SECURITY COUNCIL

Yesterday’s sessions in the SC were extremely

stressful for the delegates. A draft resolution spon-

sored by Japan failed as the U.K. activated its veto

power. While a confusion had disorientated the house

breaking news came up. The involvement of Hezbol-

lah in the crisis of Nigeria taking Libya’s side in order

to protect the Muslim population, was announced..

The Russian Federation sponsored a draft reso-

lution concerning the first topic of the Council above

the non-state actors. The session continued with the

resolution passing after having being questioned upon

its legal basis.

USA presented a second resolution on the topic

of the crisis, where Austria and Turkey passed two

amendments since both agreed that the problem was

the Republic of Niger. Through these proposed

amendments the Council ensured that Niger’s borders

were no longer out of control. As the delegate of Tur-

key stated to the journalist team afterwards “Niger

seems to be the “emmental” country which has so

many holes allowing other countries to use their coun-

try as a bridge to other neighboring states”. Let us re-

mind that Libya doesn’t border Nigeria and only

through the Republic of Niger they obtained access.

This resolution passed at the end of the session with

the USA condemning the invasion of Libya and the

involvement of Hezbollah stating “We do not negoti-

ate with terrorists”. Finally a question posed by Tur-

key the Council was unable to answer : “if the Nige-

rian government was obliged to resign then what is

this poor delegate doing here?” (referring to the dele-

gate of Niger)! By Valia Meletiou

Council of Europe

The day for the Committee of

the CoE began with the delegates’ ideas concern-

ing the disappointment and the lack of political

participation leading the youth to ideologically

extremist behavior nowadays. It is a matter of

great importance, as most of the delegates stated

and today’s draft working paper needs to be an

excellent declaration of new possibilities for the

participation of the youth in the state’s politics.

During a 30 minute unmoderated caucus lots of interesting ideas were put forward. Austria’s opinion

about launching campaigns for the youth in order to familiarize them with their rights and the politi-

cal participation was a characteristic example of delegates’ points of view that were heard in the

House. Poland was the sponsor of this draft paper which includes five key sectors that the countries

of the CoE need to deal with in order to eliminate the problem: Education, Corruption, Freedom of

Speech, Economy and Unemployment. Amendments are welcome to improve this draft paper…but I

suppose that for the moment everyone is looking forward to avoid any amendments and ultimately at

tonight’s hang out (Thessaloniki by night)!!!Yeah!!!

By Chrysoula Kachramanou

Security

Council?!

NAC

N.A.C

The last day of negotiations found the

NAC a few delegates short, in the beginning

at least. Apparently, Figaro’s outing was a

blast! All in all, the debate resulted in a draft

communiqué that did not satisfy all delega-

tions. During the voting procedure, the dele-

gate of Norway casted a negative vote, which

fired up the Council. It was not only after he

was asked to leave the room after a heated

disputre with the Chair of the Council that

the delegates successfully passed the draft

communiqué. Congratulations delegates!

Before entertaining a motion to ad-

journ the meeting until next year, this re-

porter would like to thank all the members of

the journalists team and especially our editor,

Sofia, for an excellent cooperation and so

many wonderful moments. As Thomas Jef-

ferson said, “Our liberty depends on the

freedom of press, and that cannot be lim-

ited without being lost”. See you all in

ThessISMUN 2011!!!

By Maro Lazarou

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ECOSOC

The fourth day of ECOSOC started smoothly. At this

point, it should be mentioned that all delegates of

ECOSOC were here working on their Drafts by 10:00

in the morning while the session started officially at

12:00. After that “wild” night at Figaro… CON-

GRATULATIONS GUYS!!! Niger and Mauritius

were the sponsors of the two Drafts on “International

migration and the Youth”.During the procedure the

two coalitions concluded that their proposals were

more or less the same, so they decided to present a

common draft sponsored by Mauritius. After a few

amendments and some comments the final Resolution

was ready. Finally, we would like to express our con-

dolences for the polish president and his team that was

killed unexpected while flying over Russia. That’s all

for today… ;-) By Maria Katsigianni

ECOSOC

3rd Committee

The 3rd committee started their daily

negotiations with the unpleasant announce-

ment of the death of the president of Poland

and his wife.All delegates kept a minute of

silence to express their sorrow The commit-

tee continued to discuss about the second

topic area “ The rights of indigenous peo-

ple ,reconsidering the declaration and moving

towards a convention” and started working on

the second Draft Resolution which was spon-

sored by Peru and signed by Philippines,

Uruguay, Serbia , D.P.R.K, Poland , Chile,

Cuba, Argentina, Nicaragua, Qatar, In-

dia, Iraq, Brazil, Venezuela, Pakistan, Ger-

many, France. The procedure continued with

the voting of the second Draft Resolu-

tion which finally passed with 47 in favor , 5

against, 8 abstain . The day ended pleasantly,

with the funny awards of the committee. The

most awarded delegate was Canada who took

the best dressed award, the most handsome

award, the best tie and the sexiest award!

Delegates also awarded were France, Leba-

non, Lithuania, Syria, China, German,

Ghana . By Angeliki Biti

We asked the Chairpersons to reveal little secrets of their partners! Stay tuned and

learn juicy info about the people that gave you a hard time during the sessions!!!

Electra Tsakalidou… was very stressed about the conference before it begun. Ana – Maria Enache… should be proud of her co-chair, who did not reveal anything about her. Well done, Electra, but we can’t have a newspaper like this!!!

Kostas Koukouzikis… was proven to be a crazy party animal! Vasilis Paligiannis… has a new friend for a lifetime, and the name is… Kostas Koukouzikis! Iliana Lantzou… really craved for the best dancer award, which she finally got! Unfortunately, it was at the expense of Gina Kosmidou’s feet, though…) Gina Kosmidou… has really cool bra’s, according to her co-chair!

Aggelos Peppas… was looking the delegate of Cameroon all the time…. Neofytos Aspriadis… though, was looking the delegate of Norway! At least, they are not going to fight with each other for the same girl! Also Christos when asked for Konstantina’s secret stated that he would make something up! Naughty Christos! Christos Kyriakopoulos… loves French sunglasses!

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Giorgos Goniadis… had an accident in last year’s NAC session, when a rubber “went out” of his

pocket, while he also misleads his colleagues about his hobbies and experience.

Mihalis Dekastros… never brought the chocolates he had promised to the delegates. Moreover,

we would like to inform him that he has a lot of admirers in the Council, although he might

have already shown a small preference for the delegate of Iceland…

Despina Gkinoglou…caused quite a trouble yesterday at the Conference, since her shoe

broke and he was allowed to go to the shoemaker as soon as possible.

Eri Nomikou… loves the multi-nature nature of the 2nd Committee’s board, enabling each other’s

strengths to cover each other’s weaknesses.

Jameson Ungerer… had a lot of admirers, and many girls stared at him during the sessions.

Last but not least, we would like to apologize on behalf of Evelina Pagalou Evelina Pagalou Evelina Pagalou Evelina Pagalou and Paul Kampisopoulos Paul Kampisopoulos Paul Kampisopoulos Paul Kampisopoulos for failing to meet the newspaper deadline and missing their chance on this great idea of revealing secrets!

Loud Active Well-dressed Entertaining Mr and Mrs Committee

1st Slovakia U.S.A. Russia Jordan Mr. U.K. and Mrs. Chair

(Electra Tsakalidou)

2nd Venezuela Slovenia co-chair (Eri

Nomikou) China Mr. Chile and Mrs. Nigeria

3rd Germany Lebanon France China Mr. Syria and Mrs. Denmark

H.R.C. Magadascar Russia Cameroon Bangladesh Mr. Chair (Angelos Peppas)

and Mrs. All female delegates!

ECOSO

C Germany Belgium Congo Egypt Mr. Canada and Mrs. Finland

S.C. Gabon Gabon U.S.A. Turkey Mr. Russia adnd Mrs. U.S.A.

N.A.C. President (Evelina Pagalou) Romania Journalist (!!!) Norway Mr. Hungary and Mrs. Romania

C.O.E. Germany Russia Albania Secretary General

(George Goniadis) Mr. Bosnia Herzegovina and

Mrs. Turkey

Created by Marina Cheilitsi

We are always in the committee, do not ever participate but are ALWAYS

watching your every move! You had your own awards but you never asked OUR

opinion! So we decided to give you an objective awards table. Enjoy!

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1. There are chairs which have showed a particular “preference” to a certain delegate…..

2. Which chair does not have genuine office software and the message “This reproduction of

Office is not genuine” kept coming up?

3. Which chair has a crush on admin assistants?

4. Which delegate is hoping to become the party animal of its committee?

5. Which delegate opened her shirt when she stood up to take the floor?

6. Which delegate was watching a video during the Committee session? Which delegate ad-

mitted that she was bored during the sessions and that she was looking forward to the

end? S…

7. Which delegate spent 26 euros for a special haircut?

8. Which member of the journalist team has participated in a hair product commercial ad?!

1. Committee= with a number / State = U

2. Committee = it’s a Council

3. Committee = with a number

4. U

5. C

6. C (actually, it might have been more than one… Order, delegates!!)

7. C

8. V

Has there been a “connection” between

people from these two pictures ?

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