*pust* ganz schön eingestaubt hier…

Nana, so gehört sich das aber nicht… fast ein Jahr habe ich nun nichts mehr geschrieben. Aber bald geht es weiter, versprochen! Vielleicht sogar unter neuer Adresse, wer weiß…

Ach ja, es dürfe aufgefallen sein, dass die Bilder in den älteren Beiträgen fehlen. Das liegt daran, dass ich meinen Webspace umstrukturiert habe, dadurch ging einiges verloren. Tut mir leid!

Grüße, Philipp

OLMUN 2008 – A Time for Renewal

First of all I gotta apologize for writing this blog entry in english language, but as it is about the OLMUN 2008 session, which is international and therefore english-speaking, I felt free to write in this language.

This year’s OLMUN (short form for Oldenburg Model United Nations – wanna know more about? www.olmun.org) Session was totally great for the Delegate of Israel, which was me . You may now ask yourself, why it was so great. Well, my opinion is to get the answer you really have to participate. But as this is a blog (or somethin’ like that) I think I gotta inform you about…

As I already said before, I presented the State of Israel in the „United Nations Environment Governing Council“. This years’ topic of this council was „Preventing further Overfishing“.

Now you already got some general information… Let’s go into particular
The first part of the first day was quite BOOORING as the guest speaker Mr (I forgot his name) from Bremen informed us about overfishing, technologies and stuff like that for about 3 (!) hours – It seemed like it was 6 hours…
After this talk it was time to begin with the lobbying process. This was the kinda more funny part of the day. You either had to find other nations supporting your resolution in order to be main submitter or you had to look for other nations having a resolution you wanna support. Me representing the State of Israel became co-submitter of the resolution submitted by the United States of America and the Russian Federation.

Anyways, this resolution unfortunately failed after just one hour (note: the one from Kenya was discussed for 6 long hours and did afterwards pass with 32 votes in favour and 8 votes against – including the vote of the Israeli Delegation ) The debate or discussion was in my eyes the funniest part of the whole session because you could change and therefore manipulate the resolutions of other nations in principal . But oh well, I was actually very nice and friendly to the other ones.

But you have to say that all this mentioned above was absolutely nothing compared to the closing ceremony where I laughed a lot about the presentations of each committee. I already said that you must have been present to really know why it is funny… So I will not go into further detail now and will finish writing this blog.

I hope this one gave you a rough overview of a (OL)MUN Session and we will meet next time (again)

Yours
ultra.