IMUNA 2008

On this page you see our delegations, read the issues and see pictures from the conference.

Delegations

• Panama
  • Disarmament Committee: Mr. Peter Norstein, 1B.
  • Political Committee: Mr. Vemund Vikjord, 1B.
  • Human Rights Comittee: Ms. Lina Aspen, 1E.
  • Health Comittee: Ms. Silje Dalehaug, 2A (ambassador).
  • Security Council: Ms. Victoria Forsberg, 2B.
  • Economic and Social Council: Ms. Elise Flåten Øygaren, 1B.
  • Special Conference, 1st Commission: Ms. Marie Skyberg Borgen, 1F.
  • Special Conference, 2nd Commission: Ms. Merethe Wangen, 1F.
• Czech Republic
  • North Atlantic Council: Mr. Andreas Voldstad, 2B.
  • NATO-Russia Council: Mr. Stian Seland, 2B.
  • Economic and Social Council: Mr. Eirik A. Kleive Voll, 1B.
• MUN-director: Mrs. Julia Kagge.

Issues

Disarmament Committee

• Increasing the transparency of military research, development, expenditures and production throughout the world.
• Further implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace.
• Preventing the acquisition of conventional weaponry, nuclear materials and sources by terrorist groups and individuals.
• Preventing an increase of military activities in the Arctic region.
• Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction.

Political Committee

• The question of measures against decreasing water resources, for drinking water and irrigation, due to climate change, with special regards to international water basins.
• Strengthening peace-making and peace-keeping abilities of the United Nations and other international organisations.
• Taking steps towards toward the reunification of the Korean peninsula.
• Securing sufficient energy distribution in relation with decreasing fossil fuel-stockpiles in the world.
• The question of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Human Rights Committee

• The question of human cloning.
• Further defining and implementing the right to food in Africa.
• Protecting the privacy of civilians, companies and institutions while countering terrorist activities.
• Combating the sexual exploitation of children and young men and women in South- and South-East Asia.
• The question of limiting freedom of expression in the context of religious sensibilities.

Health Committee

• Preventing the outbreak and spread of pandemic diseases.
• Improving the accessibility of medicines throughout the world.
• The question of illegal trade in human organs.
• The question of effective measures to stabilize and improve the hygienic and health situation after natural- or humanitarian disasters have occurred.
• Increasing the professional use of vaccines in LEDCs.

Security Council

• The question of the Kurdish population in the Middle East.
• The situation in Somalia.
• The question of Zimbabwe.

Economic and Social Council

• Taking measures to further improve the participation of African economies in the international trade market.
• The question of cultural artefacts in foreign museums.
• Improving reproductive and sexual health and rights on the African continent through family planning, with special regards to birth control and women education.
• Promoting the use of micro finance in LEDCs.
• Improving the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender/transsexual persons throughout the world.

Special Conference on South, South-East and East-Asia: First Commission

• Improving the relations between India and Pakistan.
• The question of the current conflict in Sri Lanka.
• The question of Taiwan.

Special Conference on South, South-East and East-Asia: Second Commission

• Evaluating the measures taken to fight the human rights crisis in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and creating new measures on this issue for the future.
• Improving inter-religious relations in the South-, South-East and East-Asia.
• The question of the South China Sea.

North Atlantic Council

• The question of NATO’s future role, in the context of increasing globalisation.
• The question of NATO involvement in Darfur.

NATO-Russia Council

• The US defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
• New agreements on the limitation of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.