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THE 11TH EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS


OFFICIAL DELEGATE RELEASE:
N1, DELTA RADIATION & DRP




GUIDANCE FOR DELEGATES
The following release provides a detailed summary of events that have occurred in the last two
years which have led to the convening of this Novembers Emergency Special Session.
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DISCOVERY OF ISSUE
In November 2013, reports began to come out of an unknown disease that was sweeping
Eastern Europe
[1]
. The Ukrainian and Belarusian ministries of health issued a preliminary health
warning
[2]
, and began to work on nding the cause of the disease. By the end of January 2014, the
disease had also been spotted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and the ve countries began a combined
medical efort to nd the cause
[3]
. On February 1
st
2014 the rst death was reported, and by the end of
the month the disease had killed 125 people. It was at this time that the ve afected countries began to
quarantine people with new cases of the disease. CHFEA (an executive agency of the EU) joined the
intergovernmental campaign to nd the cause, which gained support from the UK, the USA, France
and Australia
[4]
. It was suggested by Australia that Russia should be invited to join the efort, but Russia
refused the invitation stating simply that the issue does not afect our country.
A French doctor working on the project in early March identied the disease as a peculiar form
of radiation poisoning (ARS), a cause which had been overlooked due to the lack of evidence of
radioactive material and similarities with the symptoms of Ebola
[5]
. CHFEA then went on to prove that
the outbreak was not related to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the French Ministry of
Social Afairs set up an international working group of leading doctors, chemists and physicists to help
isolate the cause. On the 25
th
March the disease was identied as being caused by a completely new
type of radiation, now called delta radiation. The disease was then named by international press delta
radiation poisoning (DRP). The World Health Organisation issued an international health warning
[6]
and
organised a UN-led mission to the afected Eastern European regions where the rst cases were
reported. They used newly developed geiger counters and detected that high levels of delta radiation
had existed around the Russian/Ukrainian border for around six to nine months. Representatives of the
mission were denied access to Russia by Russian authorities and the Harbert report
[7]
, which detailed
the mission, concluded that a radioactive substance (which was named N1) had leached into Ukrainian
soil from Russia and entered the food chain through cows whose milk was sold by the company
EuropaFoods to all of the afected countries. EuropaFoods was shut down and investigated by the
WHO who eventually closed their milk production plant and had all infected cows slaughtered. A large
area of grazing land and parkland on Ukraines north east border has been sectioned of indenitely from
the public amid concerns regarding radioactive material.
The World Health Organisation sent an open letter to Moscow demanding information on the
number of patients being treated for DRP in Russia, and how many deaths had occurred. Putin
responded personally via Russian press stating that there were no cases of the DRP in Russia and it was
none of Russias concern. The US President openly questioned Russia on live TV as to where the
mystery substance had originated and what Russias involvement in the matter was. Again Putin
responded personally by telling Obama to stay out of [Russias] internal afairs.
Since then occurrences of DRP have slowed and the death rate is decreasing rapidly. By the end
of November 2014 a total of 6,487 people had died and a further 3,465 people were being held in
quarantine with the disease. All are predicted to die within the next three months, bringing the total
count to almost 10,000. Experimental drug trials have been started from within the French-led
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international working group, which have thus far been inefective, as the bodies of animal test subjects
have reacted diferently to medication than in human participants. Dr Richard L Koch, member of the
working group and Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has
released a statement stating that animal trials are proving unsuccessful so far in the search for a cure
for DRP. Due to the critical time frame our team is working with, I feel that a cure may only be found to
this illness if we are given permission from the FDA to experiment with human volunteers in rst phase
clinical trials. I believe that this disease is of a fragile enough nature that this next step will be essential in
our overcoming DRP . The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates drugs in the
USA, responded to the statement by stating that they do not have the authority to permit human
trials As they could be seen as a breach of human rights, that decision would have to be made by the
UN World Health Assembly.


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ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
At the beginning of March 2013 satellite imaging company DigitalGlobe discovered an unusually
large area of dead woodland in Russia, near the Ukrainian border
[8]
. Roughly 10,500km
2
of woodland
had died, and the story made front page headlines in international press. Moscow blamed Ukrainian
farmers for the destruction of the woodland, however, a known member of the Russian Maa, Volya
Filipov, later came forwards to claim singlehanded responsibility of the incident, despite having spent
the last three years in the Black Dolphin Prison in Russia. Filipov was released from prison in May 2013
and is, according to available sources, living freely in Moscow.
During the summer of 2013 three independent Russian shing associations called for a
government enquiry into the rising death rate of marine and other wildlife in the Voronezh region of
south west Russia. Immediately after this two Ukrainian shing associations backed the request, stating
that they had found an unusual lack of sh in local rivers and lakes. Russia refused the request but
Ukrainian authorities began their own enquiry, eventually nding that the cause of the large numbers of
sh deaths was a new virus that would pass with time. Three species were placed on watch lists.
A series of reports run by Ukrainian paper The Time in October 2013 highlighted that computer
repair stores on the Russian/Ukrainian border were seeing an unusually high number of devices being
brought in for repair by consumers and businesses. The Time linked the problems to the earlier shing
issue and called it some kind of strange radiation in the air, a claim which was later reported as merely
an theory of the authors.
Popular US magazine TIME brought all the issues to international attention when they linked the
dead woodland, lack of sh and computer breakdown problems together and made their investigation
the cover story of their November 2013 issue
[9]
. A famous American physics researcher went on to
publish his opinion in the following article saying that he thought it was all caused by a type of solar are
releasing radiation into Eastern Europe. The story soon died down.
On the 7
th
April 2014 a team from the WHO-organised UN mission was able to link these
three problems together, identifying each of them as a side efect of delta-rays and radioactive waste.
The soil on which the trees had grown was tested and found to contain the same radioactive substance
(N1) as that which had caused the infection of cows on EuropaFoods owned land. It is also believed that
this same radioactive substance had leached through the soil into the ground water, and then through
into the rivers. This area has since been shut of from all access, and the water source contained, away
from public use. Scientists believe that the radiation from the delta-waves may also have ionised
semiconductors in afected computers, causing electrical breakdown. Servers and military computers
closest to the radiation site are being made radiation proof to prevent further damage.


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ASSOCIATED POLITICAL AND SECURITY ISSUES
Since the start of the ongoing dispute over Crimea, Russia have remained relatively distant from
the Western political scene. However over the past two years they have been particularly absent and
appear very defensive against all attempts to maintain contact. From a psychological and political
perspective this is worrying for the UN and member states.
During the outbreak of delta radiation poisoning (DRP) at the beginning of 2014 Russia refused
to assist in any of the eforts of the Ukrainian/Belarusian-led intergovernmental campaign, the French-
led international working group, the World Health Organisation or the United Nations. This has led to
some media outlets to accuse Russia of foul play.
On the 25
th
March 2014, when the French working group identied delta radiation, the secret
intelligence services of the UK (MI6), Australia (ASIS) and New Zealand (NZSIS) secretly launched a
joint project named Operation Stingray to nd out how much Russia knew about this new type of
radiation. They identied that the Russian government had built a chemical development facility near
Voronezh (south west Russia), and that this development had gone relatively unnoticed. It was called
The Voronezh Centre for Ecological Science (VCES), and its aim - at least publicly - was to nd
greener ways of producing electricity using nuclear power. Operation Stingray, however, recently
found evidence that the centre was being used to develop new nuclear weapons. It has been
hypothesised by the intelligence services that researchers at the facility managed to isolate a new
element - later named N1 - that potentially releases these new-found delta rays. None of this
information has been made public yet, but the ofcial report is being made available for the rst time to
delegates as part of the 11
th
Emergency Special Session
[10]
.
The British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) continued the project with Operation Stingray X,
which aimed to nd more information on where the orders to build the centre had come from. MI6 later
found evidence that suggests that that the VCES had been funded by a joint collaboration between
Russia, China and North Korea. Evidence from the operation has been made available for delegates
courtesy of MI6
[11]
.