Yellow! What's up, everyone?
Back with me after like... 2 months with no post? Miss me? No? Hahahaha
Well, akhir-akhir ini kesibukan gue semakin parah. Gue bahkan ga tau apa yg harus gue prioritaskan. Mulai dari reportase, MUN, group leading APPS, senat, etc etc etc. Tapi gue lagi passionate banget sm yg namanya MUN. It's Model United Nations, a simulation of united nations council. Try google it! Hehehe. It's so fun, anyway. In that, we learn to debate in decent way, smoothly strike, negotiate clearly, and learn how to make a draft resolution of your own. And here, we're talking about the international issues which is (for me) clearly not a simple and easy thing to do. Mostly we talk about politic and humanitarian issue, anyway. Dan kemarin ini, kita baru aja membahas soal Middle East conflict, referring to Libya crisis. Dan gue dapet tugas buat bikin Position Paper. Position paper is... Well, sebuah tulisan yang harus lo bikin pertama kali sebelum megikuti MUN. It's kinda showing the stance of country you represent, how your country stand at an issue, what your country have done, and what your country want to do toward it.
Aaaaand what I wanna show you here is my veeeery first pospap, of course! Go check it out, darlings! :-D
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Committee: European Union
Country: Italy
Topic: Middle-East Conflict
Delegate : Putri Erdisa Januarti
BACKGROUNDS
It is indisputable that some of the Middle East countries are having an aggressive reformation—whether it arose from a specific state which then led to a domino effect, or indeed the particular countries in the Middle East have just perceived a shortcoming in their governance system. The cases in these Middle East countries are not a recent issue, though; the Middle East is nearly always alive with tribulations in both political and military system. But lately the world is paying the attention to a crisis in the domain of politics and governance which is specifically regarding to the forceful protests and massive demonstrations against the head of state who has commanded for extended period. Libya is one of the states that are now enduring the aforementioned problem yet haven’t achieved any completion. Today, it has became a huge issue of humanitarian ever since thousands of civilians there are being killed, violated, desecrated, and no longer given the freedom for speech. It is the principles of humanity upon which the United Nations was founded, demand that we do a better job of protecting them and solve the problem immediately.
CAUSES
Conflict occurs in Middle-East countries has always been the same throughout the months: demand of reformation. It was initially started by Egypt, as its civilians fought their President, Mubarak, the 30 years autocratic ruler, to step down. The initiation itself has however brought the spirit of the other country to do the similar thing—to overthrow their ruler from dictating the state.
The basic excuses of why they want to do that are vary: (1) They got no satisfaction of the ascendancy (2) They have portrayed that there’s something wrong with their governance system—regarding to the extended period of the president’s supremacy (3) The civilians of Libya desired to obtain reformations in their governance system. Meanwhile, reason of why it turned out into a magnitude crisis is another story. It is begun by the disavowal their president gave toward the demand of the resignation, which subsequently brought the country to an ultimate crisis as the civilians itself refused to surrender. And thus the internal war was begun and bloodshed was arisen. For the sake of humanity, it is an obligation of the United Nations as an international community to do something major to protect the civilians and strive vigorously to bring down the dictator itself; to stop the violation, the massive murder, and the humiliation of the people.
POLICIES
For Italy, there is no excuse of any kind of humiliation. What is happening there in Libya, can no longer be called as a common issue. It is heartbreaking and is a misery for us to see how abundance masses of Libyan are being killed, bombed, and dishonored, as if there is no such thing like humanity.
Italy realizes the location of Libya is moderately far from our state; hence the crisis itself will not bring so many causes toward us by geographic aspect. But nonetheless, Italy also realizes that we have conducted several substantive corporations between the two countries. Italy receives more Libyan exports than any other country (approximately 38 percent of Libyan exports are to Italy). With Libya in turmoil and Ghadafi clinging to power, no country has more at stake than Italy, which finds itself in its most complicated diplomatic position in decades, pulled between its commitment to NATO and human rights and its scramble to protect its investments in a country that is now suffering a huge crisis. (Wordpress.com)
Furthermore, Italy also has some citizens living in Libya either to work in the oil companies or merely to carry on the livelihood. By February 25, it is informed that more than 1,000 Italians have been airlifted and shipped back from Libya over the last two days and Italy hoped to bring back a further 200 on the same day. Italy has received 6,300 North African migrants from Libya as well. (Examiner.com)
Besides, The President of United States Barrack Obama and the Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, also has agreed on the need for a coordinated multilateral response to ensure adequate humanitarian assistance and basic human rights. Our Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has also stated that the country has established an agreement on a proposal for "targeted sanctions" to deter Ghadafi from shedding more blood; he said that he would ask the United Nations in Geneva to set up an independent international inspection mission under UN auspices to monitor the situation on the ground in Libya. (LifeinItaly.com)
PROPOSED SOLUTION
1. Ghadafi should resign from his position. We recommend the Security Council of United Nations to do military intervention to take Ghadafi down.
2. The transition problem of the head of States will happen afterward if Ghadafi have been overthrown; we recommend the Security Council to intervene on Libya governance system and build a new government, thus they will immediately be able to conduct a fully demonstrated election for the next president.
3. We urge the next government of Libya to have more structured, comprehensible, and transparent law, concerning the authority of the head of State. Amendment of the law is vastly needed.
4. Dealing with the refugees and the injured masses due to the armed conflict, we respectfully ask UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) to assemble and enhance the effort to protect them and prevent the situation not to be jeopardizing yet again.
5. To prevent the other Middle East countries from having the domino effect and become insisted to do the same thing—clash for reformation, we recommend Security Council to build a specific law related to the period of the authority that could bind all nation, hence the countries which still occupy the lifetime authority on its law will not fall into this kind of situation.
6. We encourage UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) to create a forum that specify on political education aspect: FSPE (Forum of Substantive Political Education); which perhaps could be conducted annually. The material inside is the education of political issue, mediation of how diplomatic way is still the most necessary solution, and any kind of political education that could advance the way people think of their governmental issue. The participant could be some representatives from the countries all over the world.
Well that is it. Thank you for reading this post. ;-)
Have a good day!
