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SS – I will be posting more guidelines for resolutions.
Below is the general guidelines so as to give you an idea on what to search for in each of your problems.

HOW TO WRITE A DRAFT RESOLUTION

I/ What Is A Resolution?

Before an MUN Conference, you write one or two draft resolutions. The issues of the

resolutions can be found in the agenda of the conference. With a draft resolution in your hand,

you will participate actively during the debates.

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.

II/ How To Write A Resolution?

The language of a UN resolution is very formal, diplomatic and somewhat legalistic.

In order to help you, please read the 4 following questions:

A/ What is the preamble?

The preamble is the introduction of the resolution. It contains the background and the

argumentation to the issue you have chosen.

B/ How to write the preambulatory clauses?

You will write your references to former UN resolutions, ratified conventions, and/or

declarations.

You will provide official figures, the most recent ones possible, to illustrate the issue.

You will congratulate countries and/or organisations (i.e. UN organisations, NGOs)

which have worked on the issue.

You will emphasise the difficulties that have been encountered in the past.

You will need to begin the preambulatory clauses with a present or a past participle or

an adjective.

C/ What are the operative clauses?

The operative clauses contain the policy statements of the body making the resolution.

The clauses should be clear and unambiguous. They present by order of importance what the

UN should do or what attitude it should adopt.

D/ How to write the operative clauses?
This question is the most difficult one. You must ensure that your proposals are
actually workable and that they fully reflect the existing policies of the country or agency that you represent. You encourage, and/or invite countries to sign/ratify a convention/declaration.
You may propose, welcome or deplore all new situations.
You may support, congratulate or refuse new proposals.
You may confirm, regret what it is already existing.
You have to begin the operative clauses with verbs in the third person singular of the Present Tense.

Rather than just borrowing/copying clauses from UN resolutions or resolutions from

previous conferences, you will be in a much better position to defend and debate during the

conference if you write your own resolution from scratch.

//We will be following this format for our resolutions

III/ How To Present A Resolution?

The heading, which appears on each page, must state specific information:

QUESTION OF: you copy the issue of the resolution.

SUBMITTED BY: you write down the name of your delegation country or organization.

The opening verb of each clause is underlined.

There is a line-space between each clause.

The lines of the resolution are NOT numbered.

Each operative clause IS  numbered.

The sub-clauses begin with a), b), c), etc.; sub-sub-clauses begin with i), ii), iii), etc.

Acronyms and abbreviation are written out in full the first time they are used.

Each preambulatory clause is followed by a comma.

Each operative clause is followed by a semicolon.

There is only one full stop, that is, at the END of the resolution.

Do make sure that you not only take a number of hard copies of your draft resolution

but also an electronic version (e.g. USB, flashdisk, iPod, etc.)

You should have enough copies to distribute to other members of his forum during the

lobbying process.

KTHXBAI!

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