SWCHSMUN 2013

Futuristic Security Council

Background Guide

Sir Winston Churchill HSMUN Conference

SWCHSMUN 2013

Table of Contents
Introduction Page 2
History of the Committee.....Pages 2-3
Timeline..Pages 3-6
Country Profiles
Permanent FivePages 6-12
Continuous Five..Pages 12-17
Rotating Member States..Pages 17-27
Bloc Positions.Pages 27-28
Questions to Consider..Page 28
What are Crisis Committees? .Page 29
Directives and Notes..Pages 29-30
An Outline of Typical Crisis Committee Flow.Page 31
Endnotes.Page 32

Introduction

History of the Committee

Virulent pandemics are spreading, narco-trafficking

and border violence are proliferating,
environmental agreements and climate stability are
deteriorating, nuclear technological capabilities are
expanding, and terror is unyielding. This is the year
2033.
Although the United Nations has struggled to adapt
to current crises, significant steps have been made.
The Security Council has added five new
permanent seats, albeit absent the veto power the
Permanent Five still enjoy, South America has
embraced a European Union-style international
political system, the International Courts have
received near-global recognition, and new
economic climates have equaled the global field of
power. Yet three separate climate conferences
have failed to coalesce into any meaningful climate
protocols, deemphasizing alternative energy
research and nearly driving Middle Asia to a
continent-wide war. The limited adaptive capacities
of industrializing nations have been made readily
apparent while tensions rise over scarce resources.
Nuclear weapons technology has not only
proliferated among states but also, in the most
pernicious of scenarios, among non-governmental
organizations and terrorist cells. Consequently, the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) struggles to
remain relevant. Negotiations on international
terrorism cooperatives imploded, leaving the global
community with no cohesive, comprehensive
framework through which to combat the growing
internationality of terrorism. As a result, the
Counter-Terrorism Committee is overwhelmed by
the extent and innovations of terrorist cells. Finally,
drought, famine and endemic disease still plague
the most impoverished regions of the globe,
sparking regional violence, destabilizing growing
democracies in favor of tyrannical despotic control
over vital natural resources.
As the year 2033 opens, a myriad of threats keep
the world in a state of international crisis with the
potential to dissolve the very fabric of globalization
and international dependency on which the world
has grown so accustomed. The Security Council,
while facing the increasingly daunting task of
maintaining international peace and security,
remains one of the last bulwarks of humanity to
the disillusion of the global community.
At SWCHSMUN, the Futuristic Security Council will
have an open agenda, and will operate
predominantly as a crisis committee.

World War II was not only the most serious and

critical period of global tumult in the modern era,
in terms of a shifting paradigm in the global order,
since the Napoleonic Wars. Even more importantly,
the war made evident, in ways the First World War
had failed to manifest, the interdependent nature
of global security and the absolute need for a
global body in which diplomacy and statesmanship
could obviate the future of warfare. On 26 June
1945, the League of Nations, the ineffectual
predecessor of the global body framework, gave
way to the United Nations, its fifty founding
members signing the U.N. Charter and establishing
on that day the commitment to unite our strength
to maintain international peace and security.1 The
Security Council, the highest operating body within
the United Nations, embodied that commitment to
global security, an ambassadorial committee
predicated on the belief that in an increasingly
nuclear world, interdependence and discourse
could better mediate conflict than could a Third
World War.
The original Security Council included the
Permanent Five nations China, France, Russia, the
United Kingdom and the United States
empowering them with a veto power over any
resolution before the committee, and six rotating
members absent the absolute discretionary power
of the World War II hegemonic victors. An
amendment to Article 23 of the U.N. Charter in
1965 increased the number of rotating members to
ten and instituted the standard nine-vote minimum
for the passage of a resolution through the
committee.2 The Security Council, whose
resolutions are the only mandates in the United
Nations that bind member nations to their
enforcement, is charged in Article 39 of the U.N.
Charter with the maintenance or restoration of
international peace and security.3 Since its
inception in 1945 through its reformation in 2018,
2478 resolutions have been issued by the Security
Council in pursuit of that goal, holding together the
international community with statesmanship,
peace-building operations and, in the most dire of
circumstances, the restoration of peace through
military force.
One of the most poignant means by which the
Security Council enacted its transformative powers
on the global stage is in the construction of various
subsidiary committees and commissions through
which they have delegated significant power to
combat threats to international peace and security.

The U.N. Peacebuilding Commission, created by the

General Assembly and the Security Council in 2005,
is a body that assembles vital resources, propounds
strategies for post-conflict regions, and works to
create a forum in which the relevant actors in a
specific conflict have the space to formulate critical
discourses on post-conflict reconstruction.4 The
Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Security
Council was created in the aftermath of the attacks
on the U.S. of 11 September 2001 to aid member
nations in building their capacity to prevent,
combat and obviate terrorism.5 The 1540
Committee under the Security Council was created
in 2004 and serves to prevent the proliferation of
nuclear, chemical and biological weapons6 and
further works to prevent non-state actors and
organizations from acquiring these forms of
warfare. Finally, the Security Councils Sanctions
Committees provide the means by which the
Security Council can exert diplomatic and economic
pressure on member states to comply with Security
Council resolutions without resorting to military
force.7 Through its subsidiary commissions and
committees, the Security Council has expanded its
ability to not only respond to crisis situations
demanding immediate resolute action, but has
enabled the body to prepare for larger, obstinately
pervasive threats to the global security climate.
The most serious evolution of the Security Council
in the 21st century has been its membership
reformation and reconstruction, legislated and
enacted in 2018. While the early period of reform
measures were dominated by the In Larger
Freedom8 and Uniting for Consensus9
reformation plans, the failure for either plan, as
well as any of the smaller reform measures
advocated by individual member nations, to
coalesce as a viable reformative measure enabled
the Security Council to escape reconstruction.
Reform measures stalled until crisis provided the
requisite impetus for reformation. In 2017, the
Security Council received intelligence that Iran was
providing nuclear material to non-state groups
accused of terrorism; consequently, the inability of
the Permanent Five to concur on and produce an
adequate and appropriate Council response drew
into question the capacity of the Security Council to
deal with crisis situations in which the Permanent
Five had vested material and economic interests. In
2018, the Continuity of Security Proposed
Resolution was introduced into the General
Assembly, marshaled by Brazil, Canada, China,
France, Switzerland and the United States. The

resolution, adopted by the General Assembly in the

same year, provided for the following reforms:
Membership of the Security Council was increased
to 20 member states, adding a new group of
nations known as the Continuous Five (C-5).
The C-5 nations, which are Brazil, India, South
Africa, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, have permanent
seats with no individual veto power.
By unanimous vote of the C-5, a single Permanent
Five veto can be overturned, enabling the Security
Council to confront serious threats to international
security on which a solitary veto stalls critical
action.
Akin to earlier reform efforts, Brazil, India and
South Africa were granted continuous seats, as well
as Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia, the one member
nation from the Arab League. Though the size of
the reform was small compared to other
reconstruction proposals, the General Assembly
ensured that the highest and most powerful body
in the United Nations now had the requisite tool
for overturning an obstructing veto by a single
permanent member. Unlike the earlier Security
Council, in which nine votes were necessary for
passage, the reformed Security Council requires
twelve affirmative votes to pass a resolution.
The reformed Security Council, serves as a
powerful impetus for global change on issues of
international security and threats to vital global
infrastructures, including global warming, energy,
disease and terrorism. Staunch in its dedication to
maintaining the fragile peace built by decades of
committees, commissions, deliberations and
resolutions in the United Nations, the Security
Council stands prepared to defend the institution
and the global network over which it serves as
tutelary guardian.

Timeline
2015
March Pandemic swine flu breaks out in El
Salvador, killing 15% of the population over a two
year period; the flu begins to spread throughout
Latin America
June Iran announces it has developed a nuclear
weapon with long-range capabilities; SC sanctions
Iran, deplores the development of the weapon
July Israel officially announces it too has a nuclear
weapon; US vetoes SC attempts to sanction Israel
December US ratifies the Rome Statute, leads
effort for universal ratification

2016
February swine flu pandemic spreads to the US
and Canada, leaving 10% of the North American
population dead in six months
March Lebanese Hezbollah launches an attack on
Israel; Israel responds aggressively, launching a
massive invasion into Lebanon, shutting down
communication out of Beirut
April Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung of Viet
Nam assassinated; Deputy Prime Minister Pham
Gia Khim quickly fills the vacancy
May UN peacekeepers deploy in Lebanon; Israel
begins a staggered withdrawal from the country
June Discovery of rich petroleum wells in
northern Canada sparks a bidding war for her
excess oil; OPEC worries about losing a large share
of the Western market
November President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan
found guilty of crimes against humanity, war
crimes, and genocide by the ICC, sentenced to life
in prison

2017
January Al-Qaeda detonates a small dirty bomb
in Los Angeles, blaming Hollywood for global moral
deterioration; US arrests two Egyptian nationals,
turns them over to the ICC for prosecution
May Armed conflicts between Chechen and
Russian soldiers break out along the border of
Chechnya
September Chechen armed conflicts escalate
November Information implicating Prime
Minister Khim in the assassination of Dung leads
to the subsequent resignation of Khim; Viet Nam
descends into five years of political turmoil

2018
February - North Korea launches an
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) with a
nuclear warhead that hits Hawaii, but fails to
detonate due to design failures; China responds by
invading North Korea, arresting Kim Jong-un, and
turning North Korea into a satellite state of China;
Kim Jong-un delivered to ICC for prosecution; the
US, wishing to avoid the outbreak of nuclear war,
allows Chinese actions to help secure the region
March President Hillary Clinton orders the
expansion of STAR WARS, the anti-ICBM system
currently under research by the Pentagon

April Chechnya declares its independence from

Russia; civil war erupts between Chechnya and
Russia; Russia accuses China of aiding Chechnya
with weaponry
July the US economy crashes again with the fall
of nearly a dozen Fortune 500 companies; the
global economy shudders in response

2019
January 30 nation states now recognize Chechnya
as an independent state
April United States Congress votes to add Puerto
Rico as a state (7 years after the referendum
question was posed to Puerto Ricans)
May the Latin American Trade Association is
formed; all nations in Central and Southern
America join with the exception of Peru and El
Salvador (Peru joins in 2022, El Salvador in 2026)

2020
July Russia agrees to a ceasefire with Chechnya
August The Climate Change Conference in Beijing
meets to discuss the problems of climate change
and the lack of a strong global response to the
issue; though the Conference produces a new
Protocol for Environmental Protection, many
environmental interest groups paint the
conference as a diplomatic and strategic failure
December China announces that it will not ratify
the Beijing Protocol due to the failure of the West,
particularly the US, in aiding the nation with
infrastructure assistance and targeted reduction
aid; a large number of Asian nations follow suit,
leading French President Gargois to declare it a
global failure

2021
February UN Secretary-General Malcorra is
assassinated during a trip to Berlin to announce
peacekeeping reforms
March Germany arrests and hands to the ICC
three Nigerian nationals whom they accuse of
orchestrating the assassination
September the worst drought in 50 years hits the
Horn of Africa; Somalia invades Eritrea to secure
water supplies; UN Security Council demands the
cessation of violence

2022
February the Security Council negotiates a peace
in the Horn of Africa; World Bank and IMF promise
infrastructure loans
June the Security Council acquires intelligence
that Iran is supplying terrorist cells with nuclear
waste, capable of being developed into dirty
bombs; the Security Council dissolves into fights
between blocs
June the US, Germany, UK, France and China
assemble in a clandestine conference (the
Marseille Conference) to decide how to proceed
with Iran; the nations decide to combine
intelligence efforts and to undermine Iranian
nuclear capabilities
July a nuclear explosion rocks southern Iran when
Operation Karzai successfully detonates a stockpile
of nuclear supplies in Southern Iran; intelligence
suggests Iran halts cooperation with its terrorist
cells while it investigates and revamps its nuclear
program
November a South Korean firm announces it has
developed a vaccine for the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus , the precursor to the
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

2023
March the Latin American Trade Association
becomes the Latin American Union of Nations
(LAUN), modeled after the European Union system
of governance and international cooperation
July US economy shows positive signs of recovery
from the 2018 economic crisis; the global economy
takes four more years to recover to 2017 levels

Presidency and immediately halts negotiations on a

Kazakh-Chinese pipeline; after being denied free
elections, Kazakhs begin to riot, leading to the
death of hundreds of ethnic Chinese; Russia and
China mobilize troops to their respective borders
February NATO lands peacekeeping forces to
establish a buffer zone between the Chinese and
the Russians
March Nuanez allows for free elections to elect a
new President; upon the election of Aranguren, he
recognizes the legitimacy of the elections and
resigns as president; Aranguren announces
Venezuela will halt any attempt to develop its
nuclear technology and further refuses to sell oil to
Russia
August US invades Congo to end epidemic tribal
violence; first use of the Clinton Doctrine
supporting interventions on humanitarian grounds
November Prime Minister Brady of the UK
orchestrates a peace agreement between China,
Russia and Kazakhstan

2026
January China warns that it will blame the US
should the violence in Congo expand beyond the
nations boundaries; Russia vetoes an SC resolution
that would place UN peacekeepers in the region
March American Free Trade Agreement crafted
and implemented in the Americas, an expansion of
its predecessor treaty NAFTA
September PM Brady is granted the Nobel Peace
Prize for her work in Kazakhstan

2027
2024
January Germany reveals intelligence that Russia
traded nuclear technology for oil rights in
Venezuela; LAUN faces its solidarity test as
Argentina and Brazil demand Venezuela to cease
efforts at nuclear development
February General Nuanez leads a coup detat in
Caracas, arresting President Himenez and declaring
himself the temporary leader of Venezuela; some
reports suggest the US gave the uprising technical
support
February LAUN hosts a meeting in Lima to discuss
the Venezuelan situation

2025
January President Terimof of Kazakhstan is
assassinated; Prime Minister Isiamov assumes the

April Mexico joins LAUN

May the US negotiates a new oil deal with
Canada, shifting its oil reliance from Saudi Arabia to
Canada; Saudi Arabia signs new oil contracts with
China in response
December the UN Security Council declares
global warming to be a global threat to security and
directs the GA to focus on finding a global response

2028
January the US peacebuilding forces in the Congo
turn over control of operations to a joint UN-AU
taskforce; the operation is widely viewed in Africa
and Western Europe as a strategic success
June President Usilia of Colombia is assassinated
by drug lords; the new President Jimenez diverts

national drug war funds to his political cronies,

allowing the drug trade to further flourish
September US DEA agents are taken hostage in
Colombia and killed on national television; the US
demands Jimenez take immediate action to crack
down on drug production within the country

and demand the US to cease building stations in

Europe
September US launches an invasion into
Cambodia under the Clinton Doctrine with the
backing of the NATO countries

2032
2029
February Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in
Camp David to discuss the recognition of a
Palestinian state; the negotiations successful,
Palestine is recognized by the US, Europe, and a
string of Latin American countries as a sovereign
nation on 26 February
March Hamas launches a series of attacks,
supported by Syria and Lebanon, against Israeli
sites; Israel responds by invading Syria and
bombing Lebanon; the US deploys troops to
northern Israel, and Clinton negotiates a tentative
peace treaty between the three nations
June Most of the Middle Eastern bloc refuses to
recognize Palestine or Israel, instead declaring the
David Settlement to be illegal and demands the ICJ
take the case
November the UN General Assembly votes to
recognize Palestine and admits the nation as the
newest member of the UN

2030
July China invades Taiwan after it elects a proindependence candidate; the US mobilizes its navy
and announces its support of Taiwan; the UN
Security Council is impotent and incapable of
acting; NATO demands Chinas withdrawal from
Taiwan
August Japanese Prime Minister Hirata
negotiates for new free elections in Taiwan and
Chinas withdrawal from the island
August China exposes American CIA involvement
in rigging the original elections in favor of the proindependence candidate
August free elections are held in Taiwan, an antiseparatist is elected, and China retreats most of its
army from the island, leaving a small contingent in
a new base on the northern shore of the territory

2031
January the US announces its Sentinel program to
be fully operational; further announces its intent to
build stations in Eastern Europe and Canada
February China, Russia, and a number of Middle
Eastern and African nations condemn the program

April in a surprise move, China sends in its own

peacekeeping troops to coordinate operations with
US forces in Cambodia; the US announces the joint
taskforce will work to restore stability to the nation
May a nuclear reactor explodes in eastern Iran;
Iran blames US clandestine operations for the
incident; Israel announces a national emergency
and mobilizes its forces in anticipation of an Iranian
invasion
June the US mobilizes two fleets to the Red Sea;
Saudi Arabia calls for an international conference
on nuclear stability and safety
September a dirty bomb explodes in Jerusalem;
hours later, a larger nuclear device is detonated in
Tehran; the SC meets in an emergency session
November Iran, Israel, and the US meet in Cairo
to discuss recent developments; all of NATO, LAUN,
and all nuclear powers urge the three to come to a
settlement before the nuclear desolation of the
Middle East
December Israel leaves the Cairo Conference; the
SC meets in an emergency session; Iran announces
it has given control of its nuclear weapons to field
commanders and overseas agents in the event of
another attack on Tehran

Country Profiles
Permanent Five
China
In 2015, President Xi Jinping, in response to the
resurgence of the H1N1 virus in Latin America,
orders a new national campaign on health care and
flu prevention. Furthermore, he reallocates funding
for health care in order to extend significant grants
to private firms working in research and
development for flu treatments and vaccines. In
the same year, China introduces a resolution in the
Security Council condemning Israel and Iran for
their nuclear weapons programs. In 2016,
President Xi Jinping sends a Chinese envoy to
Canada to discuss exploration and drilling options
in the Canadian north and opens discussions on
Chinese-Canadian oil partnerships. In early 2018,
China launched an invasion of North Korea
following the DPRKs attack on the state of Hawaii;

after helping to secure the territory with the United

States, China declared it would maintain a military
presence in the country to ensure the stability of
the reconstruction process. In 2019, China
recognized Chechnya as a state and opened
dialogue with Russia in order to pursue a lasting
ceasefire and peace between the two countries. In
2020, responding to global pressure to reduce
emissions and curtail environmentally dangerous
industrial expansion, China hosted the Beijing
Climate Conference in order to construct a new
global protocol on climate change. Three months
after the protocol was drafted, China announced
she would not be ratifying the treaty, citing
Western failures in coming through with promised
targeted reduction aid and infrastructure
assistance.
In 2022, working with the US and her allies, China
participated in a covert operation to destroy a
series of nuclear stockpiles located in southern
Iran; the operation, successful in causing Iran to
cease discussions of sharing nuclear weaponry with
terrorist cells, led to a strengthening of defense
security alliances with the US, UK, France and
Germany. By 2023, Chinas economy had recovered
from the 2018 global economic crisis and was on a
path of steady growth. The recovery was credited
to President Xi Jinpings leadership. In 2024, China
attended the Cairo conference, highlighting its
commitment to climate change cooperation as a
part of a larger (Western-led) movement. President
Xi Jinping, in the ensuing coup detat in Venezuela,
indicates Chinas willingness to work with Nuanez
and legitimize him as president if a new oil deal can
be reached. In the resulting election of President
Himenez, China lost ground in their negotiations
and further strained their relations with the new
administration.

In 2025, citing concerns over the treatment of

ethnic Chinese minorities in Kazakhstan, China
mobilized its military and militarized its border with
Kazakhstan, forcing Russia to react in kind. Through
an agreement negotiated by the United Kingdom,
China was able to construct a pipeline between
Kazakhstan and China, though the vast majority of
oil rights were given to the Russian Federation. In
2026, in response to the USs intervention in the
Congo, China warned that she would hold the US
responsible for warfare that spilled into
neighboring African nations, setting the precedent
for Chinese military opposition to US
interventionist practices. In 2027, President Xi
Jinping failed to garner a petroleum treaty between
China and Canada, putting stress on China to find
new sources to satiate her growing industrial oil
demand. This failure to cement the China-Canadian
treaty led to President Xi Jinpings loss of Chinese
Communist Party support in 2028.
President Tian Wu replaced Xi Jinping in 2028,
underlining Chinas growing desperation in the
search for oil. China failed to recognize Palestine in
2029, fearful of losing support among Middle
Eastern OPEC nations. In 2030, following the
election of a separatist leader in Taiwan, China
invaded the island despite US warnings of possible
military retaliation. As China and the US faced off in
Taiwan, China claimed that the Central Intelligence
Agency of the US had helped orchestrate election
fraud in Taiwan, leading to the electoral victory of
the separatists. In the resulting peace agreement,
China allowed Taiwan to hold new elections in
which the separatist movement was defeated.
Furthermore, China established a new military base
on the northern end of the island, which would
prove to be a point of contention between China
and the US over the next three years. In 2031,
Chinese-American tensions increased with the US
announcement of a fully operational missile
defense program and the US invasion of Cambodia.
In 2032, China launched its own invasion into
Cambodia under the pretext of aiding US forces in
their peacebuilding efforts. In response to the
nuclear attacks in Israel and Iran, China is forced to
reopen dialogues with the US and Europe on
possible solutions to the Iranian issue. As 2033
opens, China, despite much tension with the US
delegation, meets in a clandestine conference with
the US, France, Germany, UK and India to discuss
possible covert solutions to the evolving nuclear
threat in Iran.

France
In 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy
rededicated France to nuclear energy, investing
heavily in six new nuclear power plants to be built
throughout the country. In 2012, France elected
Franois Hollande as their new President. In 2016,
the H1N1 virus outbreak in Europe struck French
urban areas, resulting in Pariss quarantine and the
issuance of multiple directives limiting foreign
immigration during the crisis. Hollande had
committed the government to revamping the
failing French healthcare system, which buckled
under the pressure of the H1N1 epidemic. In 2018,
Bayrou focused government investment on several
new healthcare initiatives while creating a new
tourism media strategy for Eastern Europe and the
Americas. In early 2019, a vaccine emerged for the
French H1N1 mutation. Millions of those still at risk
of infection were saved.

In 2020, Bayrou increased spending on alternative

energy and nuclear power, cut regulatory barriers,
and declared the construction of nuclear plants to
be a national priority. In 2021, a nuclear
meltdown at the plant in Civaux resulted in a
localized explosion and contaminating more than
two million French citizens. President Hollande lost
his election in 2022 in the largest landslide in
French history, leading to the election of Union for
a Popular Movement (UMP) candidate Philippe
Traesi. In 2023, President Traesi pressured the
National Assembly into increasing government
spending on defense amid a rise in fundamentalist
Islamic rhetoric in immigrant communities.
In 2023, Frances economy lacked the growth
experienced by most of the rest of the European
Union, leading President Traesi to create
investment-worthy projects in the energy and
health industries. These projects, which succeeded
in attracting foreign investment and strengthening

diplomatic relations with China and Japan, were

credited as some of Traesis greatest achievements.
The year 2024 saw France recommit itself to safe
alternative energy at the Cairo Conference, where
they worked closely with the United Kingdom and
Egypt to form new ways of combating domestic
and international environmental issues. In 2025,
the French government sought to combat rising
unemployment in the north with its English
Channel Tunnel Expansion Project (ECTEP), which
widened the existing motor roadway between the
UK and France.
Due to public pressure and political infighting in the
National Assembly, more than 25% of Frances
nuclear power plants closed by 2026. With no
developed alternatives, Frances dependence on
foreign oil rose dramatically over the decade that
followed. In late 2026, France covertly supplied
strategic military and economic aid to Georgia,
whose oil development projects began to escalate
tension between the republic and Russia. In 2027,
France elected Democratic Party candidate Karil
Gawel, who pledged to strengthen Frances
international influence as a player on the global
stage. As the US continued with its successful
Clinton Doctrine and revolts erupted in Asia and
Africa, President Gawel increased military and
defense spending in 2028, causing protests to
break out in universities across France.
In 2029, France began to experience expansive
economic growth, allowing Gawel to pledge French
troops to UN peacekeeping missions without
diminishing his domestic prestige. In 2030, France
brokered a peaceful settlement between Georgia
and Russia over new oil pipelines, resulting in a
greater French market share for Georgian oil and a
decreased dependence on Middle Eastern sources.
In 2032, France deployed peacebuilding forces to
the Congo, where UN forces were overwhelmed by
recent outbreaks of tribal warfare. At the end of
2032, France elected her first female president,
Charlotte Chilac, an ardent militarist and staunch
supporter of French identity preservation through
international action. France enters 2033 with an
eye towards greater involvement in international
affairs, preferably as a mediator, but also as a
military power if circumstances require such action.

Russia
In 2015, President Vladimir Putin harshly
condemned the proliferation of nuclear weaponry
announced by Israel and Iran and instructed his UN
ambassador to sponsor a Security Council

resolution enacting sanctions on both nations;

though the sanctions on Israel were vetoed by the
US, the resolution sanctioning Iran passed
unanimously. In 2016, Russia announced the
construction of three new oil pipelines, including a
refining station depot near its border with the
Black Sea. In 2017, President Putin ordered the
Russian military into Chechnya to quell the
spreading revolts; Amnesty International reports
widespread human rights violations, including
torture, murder and rape.
In 2018, President Putin deplored the expansion of
the SENTINEL program of the United States,
declaring it to be a virtual declaration of future
imperialistic expansion. In the same year, Putin
ordered the full Russian military into Chechnya to
fight in the civil war in the region; furthermore, in a
Security Council meeting two weeks after the
invasion, the Russian UN ambassador publically
accused China of supplying Chechen rebels with
military aid, practically bringing the two
ambassadors to fisticuffs. In 2019, the Russian
military had still yet to quell the revolt in Chechnya,
instead facing massive desertions and food
shortages. In 2020, President Putin, facing an
unpopular civil war and global pressure to
recognize Chechen independence, signed a
ceasefire with the Chechen state and recognized
their sovereignty; later that year, facing massive
unpopularity, Putin resigned, bringing Prime
Minister Viktor Makarov to the presidency.
In 2021, President Makarov announced a series of
domestic reforms aimed at strengthening the
Russian military infrastructure and retraining her
ground forces, a move condemned by Eastern
European nations as aggressive warmongering
posturing. In 2022, Russia announced its support
for Security Council reform, supporting the bid of
Saudi Arabia as a member of the Continuous-5 bloc
as a representative of the Middle East. In 2023,
President Makarov announced the launch of three
new Russian satellites as part of the Russian antimissile defense shield, prompting the US Congress
to increase funding for their own defense program.
In 2023, President Makarov attempted to trade
nuclear technology for an oil deal with Venezuela, a
negotiation publicized and widely condemned by
the global community; with the fallout from the
deal and no comprehensive oil agreement, Russia
began exploring oil supplies near the Ukraine. In
2025, following the assassination of President
Terimof of Kazakhstan, Russia ordered its troops to
its border with Kazakhstan, deploying its soldiers in

a peacekeeping mission to ensure that its

impending oil deal would be fully realized; after
facing head-to-head with Chinese troops in the
Kazakh region, Prime Minister Brady of the United
Kingdom negotiated a successful settlement.
In 2021, President Makarov ordered his UN
Ambassador to veto a United States Security
Council resolution that would be put UN
peacekeepers in the Congo, citing opposition to the
US Clinton Doctrine implementation. In 2027,
Russia declared global warming to be a global
security concern and urged the G-8 to form its own
climate change agenda to combat global issues.

In 2029, Russia declined to recognize Palestine,

instead awaiting popular referendum in the region
to declare itself sovereign. In 2030, Russia
clandestinely agreed to recognize Taiwan should
the state succeed in securing European and US
support for independence, sparking a dark
diplomatic war between Russia and China as the
two attempted to secure their interests in the
island.
In 2031, Russia sponsored a General Assembly
resolution condemning the United States for
implementing its SENTINEL program; in the same
year, President Makarov increased funding for their
own defense shield, launching two more satellites
into space. In 2032, Russia urged the Security
Council to address the Israeli and Iranian nuclear
crises, urging the United States to rescue itself from
the Council as it addressed Israeli aggression.
Currently, Russia is crusading against nuclear use in
the Middle East, demanding that Israel and Iran
completely dismantle their nuclear arsenals.

United Kingdom
In 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron
recommitted the United Kingdom to development
on the African continent, increasing the UKs

foreign aid budget and expanding the scope of its

healthcare and infrastructure mission. In 2011,
Prime Minister Cameron also declared a campaign
to increase public participation in government,
particularly among the young. The campaign,
largely successfully in Scotland and the Low
Counties, resulted in an increased focus on
volunteerism and the needs of the poor.
In the 2015 elections, the Liberal Democratic Party
won in a surprising upset, leading to the
appointment of Nick Clegg as Prime Minister. In
2017, a mutated form of the swine flu struck the
United Kingdom, hitting the crowded urban cities
of Edinburgh, London, Bristol, and Belfast,
especially hard. Prime Minister Clegg declared the
United Kingdom in a state of medical emergency.
Authorities implemented a quarantine system that
soon isolated 8.5% of the population into small,
segregated communities. Before a working vaccine
was discovered and distributed in the beginning of
2018, nearly two million British citizens had
succumbed to the flu.
Shortly after the attack upon the United States by
North Korea, the United Kingdom increased its
defense spending considerably, working to develop
a missile defense shield alongside US contractors.
In 2019, Prime Minister Clegg further promoted
progressive domestic movements including the
expansion of youth programs and the legalization
of same-sex marriage. Two months before the
Beijing Climate Conference in 2020, Parliament
passed the Modern Industries Act, which set aside
millions of pounds for the reduction of greenhouse
gas emissions and the development of new
alternative energy techonologies. In 2021, the UK
revolutionized nuclear energy technology and
processes for the safe elimination of nuclear waste.
It became the leading European nation in the
green movement.

Following Prime Minister Cleggs fatal stroke,

Vincent Gable was appointed Prime Minister in
early 2022. A few short weeks later, King George VII
(the former Prince Charles) passed away, leading to
the coronation of William, Prince of Wales, as King
(He becomes King William V). Working alongside
China, the United States, France, and Germany, the
UK participated in clandestine operations to
destroy nuclear weapons stockpiles in southern
Iran. In 2023, the United Kingdom managed to
reduce its petroleum dependency drastically with
the advent of various green solutions, including
an efficient and inexpensive hydro-electric car. In
2024, the United Kingdom led discussions at the
Cairo Climate Conference on how best to reduce
industrial dependence on petroleum and emerged
as the leading voice on strategic energy
independence.
In late 2024, PM Vincent Gable was forced to resign
amid allegations of multiple sex scandals, leading
to the election of Liberal Democrat Millicent Brady.
Prime Minister Bradys first major crisis came with
the armed tensions over Kazakhstan in 2025. Her
successful negotiation of peace between China and
Russia over oil-rich Kazakhstan led to her Nobel
Peace Prize award in 2026. In late 2026, the United
Kingdom began to imitate the United States
interventionist policy and launched an intervention
of its own into Darfur, where violence had begun to
reemerge. The UK followed with a pledge to ensure
the economic and social restructuring of its former
provincial demesne. In 2027, the United Kingdom
proposed a Security Council resolution declaring
global warming and climate change to be securityrelated concerns deserving of the Councils
attention and the increased focus of the General
Assembly.
The United Kingdom recognized Palestine as a
sovereign nation in 2029, signing a bi-lateral treaty
with the new country over terms for British foreign
aid and infrastructure support. In 2030, Prime
Minister Brady failed in her attempts at negotiating
the withdrawal of Chinese military forces from
Taiwan, a failure that later culminated in her
resignation from office and the promotion of Janet
Royall to the post of Prime Minister. In 2031, Prime
Minister Royall voiced her support of the US missile
defense system and advocated for the construction
of several critical sites throughout Eastern Europe.
A year later, nuclear attacks on Israel and Iran led
the UK to pledge itself to the security of Palestine
and a broader security of the region. The United
Kingdom moves into 2033 with a militantly liberal

Prime Minster, a strong Liberal Democratic

majority in Parliament, the leading voice on
environmental reform and energy independence,
and a strong hand in the security and safety of the
newest member of the global community.

United States
Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of
the United States in 2008. During the first term of
his presidency, his administration stewarded
through Congress legislation for universal health
care, credit reform, environmental regulation
safeguards, the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq,
the repeal of the militarys Dont Ask Dont Tell
policy, the signing of the Rome Statute, and the
expansion of foreign aid for health care and
disaster relief to Africa and Southeast Asia. Though
the threat of the H1N1 virus had waned after its
introduction to the world in 2009, a mutated form
of the flu erupted across the United States in 2016.
With a burdened health care system and no
effective H1N1 vaccines available, there was no
way to stop the pandemic from killing nearly ten
percent of the US population. In 2017, Al-Qaeda
detonated a dirty bomb in the city of Los Angeles,
California, killing two thousand people and
contaminating thousands more. In 2018, Kim Jongun of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
(DPRK) launched an Intercontinental Ballistic
Missile (ICBM) with nuclear capabilities at the state
of Hawaii. However, with its underdeveloped
technology, the missile failed to accomplish its
intended purpose. Regardless, American
government expanded the Sentinel Program, the
Pentagons missile defense system and, with the
aid of Chinese forces, ousted Kim Jong-un and took
control of the DPRK. In this volatile year of 2018,
the nations economy, after slowly recovery from
the 2007-2008 financial crisis, collapsed once more,
causing unemployment and poverty levels to
skyrocket. Finally, in April of 2019, Puerto Rico was
added as the 51st state in the United States
Congress while reactionary Republican leaders
forced legislation that made English the official
language of the USA.

Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was

elected as the nations first woman president in
2016. In her first two years in office, President
Clinton appointed two liberal-moderate justices to
the US Supreme Court that shifted its balance from
centrist to centrist-liberal. Following a series of
controversial court decisions, conservatives
dominated the 2018 midterm elections in a sweep
in which Republicans took back the House and
nearly missed taking control of the Senate. The
economy began to fully recover from the crises of
2018 after two years of Clintonian tax credits and
public works legislation. President Clinton
articulated in 2019 a new foreign policy doctrine
(the Clinton Doctrine) that stated that the US could
use military force to intervene in humanitarian
crises, the first time in history a government
legitimized the use of military intervention purely
on humanitarian grounds. In early 2025, President
Clinton ordered US forces into the Congo to halt
epidemic tribal violence, the first test case of the
Clinton Doctrine. Despite the prevalence of a
conservative and reactionary mood across the
nation, President Clinton had won re-election in
2020. Republicans retained control of the House
and gained narrow control of the Senate. In 2026,
President Clinton negotiated the expansion of
NAFTA to extend, in limited economic spheres, to
the Latin American Trade Association; the treaty,
known as the American Free Trade Agreement,
would later set precedent for large-scale free trade
agreements in Africa and western Asia. In 2027, the
Democrats regained control of the Senate and
picked up seats in the House. Riding the
progressive swing, Congress (following European
examples throughout the 20-teens) legalized samesex marriage in all of the United States. In 2028, US
forces turned over control of the peace-building
operation in the Congo to a joint UN-AU
operational force. The intervention, though

unpopular in the Middle East and parts of Asia, was

largely viewed as a major success and a strong
showing of moral leadership on the part of the
United States.
In 2028, Congress passed the 29th Amendment,
eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a
popular vote standard for the election of the
President. The amendment was ratified by all 51
states except Texas and Idaho in early 2028. In that
same year, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom
was elected President by an electoral landslide,
taking back the House and gaining seats in the
Senate. Two months after taking office in January
of 2029, both President Newsom and VicePresident Franken were assassinated in the Capital.
Six days after the assassinations, the Supreme
Court ruled that the provisions of the Presidential
Succession Act of 1947 allowing the Speaker of the
House or the President Pro Tempore of the Senate
to assume the Presidency were unconstitutional
(neither were officers as defined by the
Constitution and the Constitution prohibits one
person from serving in both the legislative and
executive branch). Secretary of State Richard
Hanson, a Republican appointed by President
Newsom to appease the vocal Republican minority,
was sworn in as President on 29 March 2030. Riots
broke out in most major American cities and mass
protests were staged in Washington, D.C. Under
enormous pressure from Congress and state
politicians, President Hanson appointed Senator
Michael Rubio, a Democrat from California, as his
vice-president. In 2031, President Hanson launched
a major US invasion, under the Clinton Doctrine,
into the nation of Cambodia, citing statesanctioned killings and repressions of the right to
practice religion as the instigating humanitarian
grounds. In late 2032, President Hanson negotiated
a bilateral treaty between Cambodia and the
United States that would ensure US aid to help
rebuild the country. Citing a lack of strong
measures on the freedom of Cambodians to choose
and practice their own religion, alongside concerns
over free press and free speech, the Senate tied 5050 in their vote to ratify. Vice-President Rubio, the
deciding vote, went against President Hanson and
rejected the treaty. The US enters 2033 with a
divided government and a divided White House, an
unsettled military presence in Cambodia, and
mounting public resentment against an unelected
President.

Continuous Five
Brazil
In 2015, President Dilma Rousseff harshly criticized
the announcement made by Iran and Israel
regarding nuclear weapons capabilities and
sponsored a resolution in the General Assembly for
the formation of a new summit and treaty on
international disarmament and nuclear
nonproliferation programs. In 2016, following her
leading role in spearheading international support
around new commitments to global disarmament
talks, President Rousseff gained unprecedented
international media coverage for herself and her
country. In 2017, the H1N1 virus spread throughout
the large South American nation, crippling local
governments and prompting President Rousseff to
declare martial law; as an upwards of 20 percent of
the Brazilian population died from complications
due to the virus, President Rousseff declared the
healthcare and national guard infrastructure in
Brazil to be pressing, critical crises and asked her
Congress to pass new legislation reforming the
failing systems.
In 2018, the economy of Brazil succumbed to the
global collapse, the new legislative programs
folding and spending agendas cut as the nation
struggled to maintain its most basic of public
utilities. In 2019, Brazil joined the Latin America
Trade Association; President Rousseff called the

organization one of the best defenses against

future global economic crises and urged all Latin
American nations to commit themselves to the
association. In 2019, despite falling approval ratings
for her domestic programs, President Rousseff was
reelected, and the Brazilian Republican Party
gained seats in the National Congress. In 2021,
President Rousseff sharply criticized China for its
lack of commitment to fighting global warming and
called for a more comprehensive climate change
protocol. In 2022, Brazil praised the investment

strategy made by South Korea in medical

vaccination futures and lauded the discovery of the
HIV vaccine; consequently, President Rousseff
called on other Western nations to increase their
medical research programs and committed
Brazilian pharmaceutical companies to the
production of the South Korean vaccine for
distribution on the African continent.
In 2023, Brazil sponsored and supported a General
Assembly resolution that restructured the UN
Security Council to include five new continuallyseated members; elected by the Latin American
bloc to represent South American issues on the
Council, Brazil hails the reform as ushering in a new
era of United Nations leadership on the global
stage. In 2024, Ana Maria Rangel was elected as
the first woman president of Brazil; shortly
following her election and the revelation that
Venezuela sought nuclear weapons technology
from Russia, President Rangel launched a campaign
against the Venezuelan military government and
demanded that Venezuela refuse to sign any oil
agreements with the Russian Federation and cease
proliferation of weapons technology or face
expulsion from the Latin American Union of
Nations.
In 2025, President Rangel called the RussianChinese conflict over Kazak oil the most serious
threat to global security and further called on the
United Nations to draft more serious and directed
resolutions at finding alternative energy solutions
for the 21st century. In 2026, Brazil joined the
North American Free Trade Agreement, citing the
economic strength in global interdependence and
praising the LAUN and Canada for their leadership
in crafting the joint trade agreement. In 2027,
President Rangel, following the declaration of the
UN Security Council that global warming
constituted a global security threat, forced through
the National Congress legislation to toughen
industrial pollution and emission standards and
piloted a new works program targeted at fixing
current pollution crises and environment issues
throughout Brazil.
In 2028, President Rangel and her strong leadership
saw her reelected by popular vote. In 2029, Brazil
announced a new proposed framework for
combating international border issues within the
Latin American Union of Nations, prompted by the
drug violence in Colombia and the advancing
militarism in the Caribbean. In 2030, President
Rangel organized the formation of a LAUN
peacekeeping and peacebuilding organization

capable of responding to international and

domestic threats in Latin America. In 2031,
President Rangel held her term as President of the
LAUN, expanding the role of the peacekeeping
force and strengthening the commitment of
member states to the expansion and codification of
industrial and commercial law for the region. In
2032, President Rangel condemned the escalating
violence in the Middle East and called on the LAUN
to work towards sponsoring new global security
initiatives within the General Assembly and in the
UN Security Council. As the year 2033 opens, Brazil
stands as a regional voice for increased
incorporation of national militaries and codes of
law, as well as a global player in the fight to crack
down on rampant nuclear armament through an
increased commitment by the United Nations to
forceful disarmament.

India
In 2015, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
condemned Israel and Iran for their proliferation of
nuclear weapons technology and called for their
peaceful disarmament. In 2016, India, suffering
from overpopulation and poor social services,
announced a new Responsible Planning initiative,
modeled after the One-Child policy in China. In
2017, India experienced a rash of small bombings
along its border with Pakistan, prompting India to
demand for Pakistan to work to secure its border
and crackdown on terrorism within its country. In
2018, Prime Minister Singh condemned the
intervention of China into the DPRK and denounced
their continual military presence in the region.
In 2019, Pranab Mukherjee became the Prime
Minister of India. Soon after being sworn in, India
recognized Chechnya as a sovereign nation,
offering humanitarian aid for its war-ravaged
provinces. During the year 2020, Prime Minister
Mukherjee ordered increased border security on
the Indian-Bangladeshi border in order to curtail
the immigration of environmental refugees from
Bangladesh. In 2021, the H1N1 virus spread
through northern India, killing more than 30
percent of the poorest citizens across the region. In
2022, India sharply criticized Iran for its nuclear
tests, declaring the Islamic regime to be a threat to
global safety and security. In 2023, in preparation
for the upcoming climate conference, Prime
Minister Mukherjee recommitted India to a future
of renewable energy and further committed its
industry to standards more stringent than those
outlined in the Beijing Protocol, casting itself as a

leader on green energy and environmental

measures.

In 2024, despite the attempts of the government to

curtail its burgeoning population, the south of India
experienced massive crop failure due to industrial
toxic waste mismanagement, leading to one of the
largest food shortages in the history of the nation.
In 2025, India mobilized their troops to their border
with China to prevent Chinese refugees from
flooding the northern territories; in the same year,
Prime Minister Mukherjee introduced antiimmigrant edicts to curtail the further erosion of
vital social institutions destabilized by porous
border policies. In 2027, India experienced
increased salinization of their southern and
western farmlands as industrial standards set by
the government failed to manifest in real progress,
leading to mass starvation.
In 2028, India sponsored a Security Council
resolution aimed at combating global drug
trafficking as it pertains to terrorism, citing
Colombian cocaine and trans-Pakistani heroin
trades as obstacles to global security. In 2029, the
election of Prime Minister Dayanidhi Maran was
marred by allegations of corruption and election
fraud, leading opposition leaders to call for election
monitors and a new vote. However, oath-taking
ceremonies were still carried out. Later in 2029,
Prime Minister Maran refused to recognize
Palestine, citing concerns over the legitimacy of
Palestinian representation at the Camp David
negotiations. In 2030, Prime Minister Maran
mobilized Indian troops to the Chinese-Indian
border, citing the Chinese militarization of Taiwan
as an aggressive threat to the stability of the
region.
In 2031, Prime Minister Maran cracked down on
opposition leaders still alleging a corrupt election,
jailing his dissidents and declaring martial law in

Dubai and Bombay. In the same year, India

announced its support for the American invasion of
Cambodia and proposed a Security Council
resolution to send United Nations peacekeepers to
the country for the purpose of logistical and tactical
support for the US invasion forces. In 2032, India
announced its intention to propose a Security
Council resolution sanctioning both Israel and Iran
for their nuclear proliferation and further
demanded that the Paris Conference produce a
bilateral accord in order to maintain peace in the
Middle East. In the same year, popular riots broke
out as Prime Minister Maran announced the
continued imprisonment of opposition leader
Jayant Advani. As the year 2033 opens, the Indian
government continues to face popular opposition
and widespread revolts as she urges the Security
Council to take a hard-line stance against nuclear
proliferation in the Middle East.

Nigeria
In 2015, Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe
Jonathan condemns Israel and Iran for their
proliferation of nuclear weapons technology and
joins Brazil and Germany in calling for a new treaty
on nuclear proliferation. After being reelected in
2016, he led a national campaign against
corruption, a campaign that culminated in 2017
with the arrest of his vice-president. President
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan continued
Nigerias high economic growth with diversification
programs and investments in industry, often at the
expense of the environment.
With the collapse of the global market in 2018,
Nigeria entered a recession that led to mass-scale
riots and demands for strong government
intervention. In late 2018, the government
launched a series of public works programs aimed
at boosting industry, tourism, and the
entertainment sectors. The programs, massively
popular and widely successful at growing small
businesses and attracting foreign investment, were
the hallmark of the presidency of Goodluck
Jonathan. In 2019, Nigeria recognized Chechnya as
an independent state and pushed for recognition of
the new country by the UN General Assembly.
In 2020, Anyim Pius Anyim was elected President
and the Peoples Democratic Party gained seats in
the House, reflecting their widespread popular
support in the wake of Nigerias economic crisis. In
2021, President Anyim urged the African Union to
take serious action to aid in the relief of Horn of
Africa nations, stressing continental unity, and

further appeals to the World Bank for aid in the

region. Six months later, President Anyim, in the
wake of the nuclear explosion in Iran, echoed again
the need for international cooperation in the
elimination of nuclear weapons and stressed the
vast danger of nuclear stockpiles.
In 2023, Nigeria launched another campaign to
fight corruption; though less successful than its
predecessor, the campaign helped assure foreign
investors of Nigerias commitment to the political
process and transparency.
Furthermore, as Security Council reform advanced
in the United Nations, Nigeria championed itself as
the voice of the African continent on the UNs
highest committee. As the conference in Cairo
approached, Nigeria further committed itself to
environmental protection and green technology,
pledging itself to lower its industrial carbon
footprint. President Anyim won his reelection
campaigning on those climate changes promises.
In 2025, Nigeria called upon China and Russia to
come to peaceful terms in Kazakhstan, raising the
issue in the UN General Assembly and attempting
to spark discussion within the Security Council.
Nigeria abstained from the Security Council
resolution in 2027 declaring climate change to be a
global security threat, claiming instead that the
issue deserved to be discussed by larger and more
specialized bodies.

In 2028, Nigeria pledged troops to the UN-AU

operation in the Congo, declaring the intervention
of the US to have advanced humanitarianism and
brought about a new level of Western-African
cooperation. This year also saw the election of
President Kena Offasa, a strong supporter of
President Anyim and a staunch advocate of the
rights of industry and business in Nigeria.
In 2029, Nigeria indicated its willingness to
recognize Palestine, a position that brought it to

odds with many of its peers in OPEC. In 2031,

President Offasa refused to condemn the US for its
missile defense program, a position that again put
the nation at odds with many nations in the Middle
East and Northern Africa. In the wake of the
nuclear attacks in 2032 against Israel and Tehran,
Nigeria joined Saudi Arabia in calling for a
conference on nuclear energy and proliferation and
demanded that nuclear proliferation be seriously
addressed by the global community as a pressing
security concern. As the year 2033 opens, President
Offasa leads the charge against nuclear legislative
apathy in the West and demands that the Security
Council take up the issue of errant nuclear
technology in the global security framework.
Saudi Arabia
In 2015, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud met
with President Obama of the United States at Camp
David to discuss the future of Saudi-American
relations in the context of oil, terrorism, and a new
world economy. Fourteen months after the Camp
David discussions, Canada announced the discovery
of new petroleum wells in its northern regions,
leading OPEC to hold an emergency session to
discuss the future of the western oil market. Saudi
Arabia emerged from these talks as the chief
diplomatic agent entrusted with securing US and
European commitments to OPEC oil. Though King
Abdullah solidified his relationship with President
Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, the Los
Angeles terrorist bombing in 2017 by members of
Al-Qaeda created massive backlash against
Muslims and Arabs in the US and Western Europe.
These were accompanied by numerous protests in
Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam.
In 2018, the Saudi Arabian economy was hit hard
by the second collapse of the US economy, forcing
King Abdullah to strengthen ties with the Latin
American and North African communities. In the
same year, King Abdullah died after suffering a
massive heart attack, leading Faisal bin Abdul Aziz
Al Saud to assume the title of King; more
conservative and less pro-West than his father,
King Faisal pulled out of a multi-lateral conference
with the US, Canada, and Venezuela, and
concentrated instead on further diversifying the
nations oil consumer base. During 2019 and 2020,
Saudi Arabia proceeded to recognize Chechnya and
pledged foreign aid to its developing government,
straining the countrys relationship with Russia.
King Faisal further increased the nations already
considerable foreign aid budget, particularly for

countries in Northern Africa and Southeast Asia.

Furthermore, he focused on improving Saudi
Arabias economic and diplomatic relationships
with Brazil, India, and Nigeria. The kings brother
Hassan, Ambassador to the United Nations, worked
to increase Saudi Arabias presence and stature
within the UN and became a strong voice for
Security Council reform. In 2023, Saudi Arabia
would join Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria and India as
a member of the Continuous Nations bloc.

In 2021, a wave of pro-democracy sentiment swept

Saudi Arabias burgeoning youth population,
leading to revolutionary protests in Riyadh. In
response to the rising protests, the Saudi Royal
Guard dispelled all revolutionary assemblies,
resulting in thirty deaths and hundreds of injuries.
By late 2022, the Saudi Arabian economy had
recovered from the 2018 global collapse, emerging
with strengthened ties to South America and
Northern and Western Africa. In 2024, Saudi Arabia
attended the Cairo Climate Conference, pledging to
help end global oil dependence and further
develop green energies. In the ensuing Venezuelan
crisis, King Faisal worked behind the scenes to end
Venezuelas nuclear deal with Russia, funding
General Nuanezs coup against President Himenez.
In 2025, King Faisal strongly condemned the US
intervention in the Congo and aligned himself with
the Arab bloc, one of the first definite signs of a
damaged Saudi-US relationship. The US-Saudi
break solidified in 2027 when the US signed a new
oil deal with Canada, significantly reducing its
dependence on Saudi Arabian oil. In response, King
Faisal worked with President Huan of China to
secure Arabian oil for China, an agreement that
capped two years of closed-door negotiations with
the Asian nation.

Saudi Arabia denounced the Camp David

negotiations of 2029resulting in a Palestinian state
and introduced a resolution in the Security Council
demanding that the International Court of Justice
review the settlement. In 2030, pro-democracy
movements resurfaced in Riyadh and Dammam,
leading King Faisal to institute harsher speech laws
and revoke the right of petition for Saudi officials.
Condemned by the West, King Faisal reiterated the
doctrine of sovereignty and national rights. In 2031,
Saudi Arabia led the Middle East in condemning the
US missile defense program and demanded an end
to American interventionist policy. The issue
escalated in 2032 with the US invasion of Cambodia
on grounds of religious persecution.
After the nuclear attacks in Israel and Iran, fearful
of the US navy presence in the Red Sea, Saudi
Arabia called for an international conference on
nuclear energy and proliferation. Furthermore,
King Faisal reached out to French President Chilac
in asking that Paris host a peace summit with the
US, Israel, and Iran. As the year 2033 opens, King
Faisal, amid Saudi intelligence reports that prodemocracy revolutionaries are planning to stage
massive riots in the hopes of invoking the US
Clinton doctrine, is attempting to weave a web of
international support for Saudi Arabia in the face of
US military presence in the Red Sea.

South Africa
In 2015, President Jacob Zuma condemned Israel
and Iran for their proliferation of nuclear weapons
technology. South Africa joined Brazil and Germany
in calling for a new comprehensive treaty on
nuclear proliferation. The following year, still
plagued by critics alleging his administration of
corruption and him of rape, Zuma appointed
special prosecutors and commissioned a new police
force to investigate the allegations and the
terrorist affiliations of those trying to topple his
government. In 2017, Lesotho again accused South
Africa of perpetrating vicious policies against
refugees on its northern borders. During the same
year, President Zuma faced increased criticism over
his lack of a bold energy plan. In 2018, rolling
blackouts continued to plague South African cities
as the global market again crashed, leading to mass
riots and pogroms (white mobs rioting against
black businesses) across the country. With
thousands dead as a result of civil unrest over a
four month period, 2019 saw the declaration of
martial law and the suspension of elections.

In 2020, after President Zuma was reelected in a

widely contested election, his administration was
again charged with corruption and intimidation. Six
months later, President Zuma spoke to the General
Assembly on the need for greater funding of energy
and infrastructure projects in South Africa and
justified his use of executive force in the name of
stability for the nation. In 2022, South Africa signed
the Beijing Protocol in an attempt to reign in
industrial abuses and crack down on environmental
polluting in order to secure financial aid loans from
the US and European Union. In 2023, President
Zuma urged the World Bank and IMF to extend
South Africa additional funding for new energy
projects as rolling blackouts continued to disrupt
businesses and stoke racial tensions across the
country.
In May of 2024, President Zuma died from cardiac
arrest; newly elected President Zamir pledged new
reforms and anti-corruption campaigns for the
administration. In 2025, President Zamir shut down
the Zuma secret police force and revoked the
commission of the Zuma special prosecutors,
largely seen as political mechanisms for
suppressing dissent. In the same year,
investigations into Zumas death revealed a
pervasive trend within the Zuma administration in
support of the human trafficking of young African
girls. In 2026, President Zamir introduced a new
resolution in the General Assembly that would
strengthen the UNs ability to combat human
trafficking on the African continent and would
crack down on the human sex trade. In 2027, South
Africa celebrated the opening of its newest
functional nuclear power plant, a key component
of Zamirs plan for combating South Africas energy
crisis.

In 2028, South Africa launched a program targeted

at encouraging young men to enlist in the AU or UN
peacekeeping forces, a calculated attempt at
implanting new systems of civil service while
decreasing the number of unemployed young men
in South Africas cities. In 2029, South Africa
recognized Palestine as a sovereign state and
advocated for its addition to the UN global
community.
The year 2030 witnessed the paradigm-shifting
election of South Africas first black woman, Mira
Tasil, as President. A year after her election,
President Tasil announced that South Africa, as
part of a US aid package, had agreed to construct a
relay station as part of the US Sentinel program,
putting South Africa at odds with many of her
regional allies. In early 2032, while campaigning in
the north of the country, President Tasil was
assassinated by the Brothers for Racial Peace, a
fringe white supremacy group. The Deputy
President, Dipuo Peters, filled the presidential
vacancy. Going into the year 2033, South Africa
faces serious racial tensions domestically and
critiques of corruptive policies internationally. She
emerges as a state tied to the human conflicts of
her region yet isolated from the politics of her
allies.

Rotating Member States

Chile
In 2015, President Sebastian Piera Enchenique
sent material aid to El Salvador to help alleviate the
H1N1 flu crisis, though the subsequent outbreak in
Chile caused the government to divert aid from El
Salvador to its domestic outbreak. In 2016, lvaro
Erazo Latorre was elected President on a pledge to
secure Chile from future health epidemics,
dedicating the government to a total overhaul of
their health care system and massive investment in
new healthcare futures, including medical research
and cooperative health agendas.
In 2017, terrorist bombings along the ChileanPeruvian border called into attention the faltering
ability of Chile to control and protect its border,
leading President Latorre to increase military
spending with a rising deficit. In 2018, as national
economies collapsed, Chile was forced to scale
back on its healthcare initiatives in favor of
increased border security, a position highly
unpopular with the Chilean electorate. In 2019,
Chile joined the Latin American Trade Association;
in response to the reluctance of Peru to crack down

on the Shining Path terrorist group and their series

of bombings along the border, President Latorre
lobbied to block Peru from joining the association,
alienating their northern neighbor until 2022.
In 2020, Chile attended the Beijing Climate
Conference, lobbying for exceptions for the
shipping industry; Chile declined to sign the
Protocol after China backed down from its
commitments three months later. In 2021, Chile
condemned Germany for its breakdown in its
security during the assassination of the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations and called on the
International Criminal Court and the European
Union to investigate the role of Germany in the
attack.

In 2022, Chile lobbied its Latin American neighbors

for the formation of a stronger and more cohesive
cooperative, modeled after the European Union;
working alongside Venezuela and Argentina, the
Latin American Union of Nations launched in 2023.
In 2024, Chile voiced opposition to the militant
attack committed by Brazil on Venezuela and
advocated for a more peaceful resolution, blocking
the expulsion of Venezuela from the LAUN.
In 2025, Hugo Melafont was elected President in a
run-off election; President Melafont, a staunch
supporter of the early leadership shown by
Venezuela in the Association, pledged to secure a
seat for Chile on the UN Security Council during the
next rotation. In 2026, President Melafont
addressed the General Assembly on the need for
greater global investment in central Africa, citing
the recent failure of the Security Council to send in
additional peacekeepers to the Congo. In 2027,
President Melafont negotiated an oil deal with
Canada, securing ten percent of the Chilean
petroleum needed for seven years. In 2028, Chile
commended the UN peacekeeping force transition

in the DR Congo, praising African Union leadership

in helping restructure the Congo state.
In 2029, Chile re-elected Sebastin Piera
Echenique as the next president; President
Echenique quickly followed with the rest of LAUN
and recognized Palestine, lobbying for her
admission to the UN in the General Assembly. In
2030, President Echenique created a new
government program for the training of Chilean
peacekeeping forces to serve in the LAUN force;
President Echenique also advocated for the forces
use on the Chilean-Peruvian border, citing the
international threat border terrorism poses to Latin
America.
In 2031, Chile succeeded in its bid for a seat on the
Security Council, elected to serve for 2032 and
2033. In 2032, President Echenique called for a
global humanitarian response to the explosions in
the Middle East, calling on both the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
to mobilize and be allowed entrance into Iran and
Israel in order to attend to affected populations. As
the year 2033 opens, Chile stands as an advocate
for an immediate humanitarian response to the
current nuclear attacks, demanding that politics
not trump populations as the Security Council
meets to determine its present course.
Cuba
In 2015, President Raul Castro condemned Israel
and Iran for their proliferation of nuclear weapons
technology and joined with Brazil in calling for new
nuclear proliferation international agreements. In
2016, President Castro closed the borders of Cuba
in an effort to quarantine the island from the
virulent H1N1 outbreak; the quarantine delayed
but did not deter the spread of the virus, and more
than fifteen percent of the Cuban population died
by 2018. In 2018, with the collapse of the global
economy, global demand for Cuban sugar
plummeted, instigating a national debt crisis that
rocked the economy of Cuba. In 2018, President
Castro was forced to cut defense and justice
spending, alleviating some economic pressure at
the risk of enabling the proliferation of organized
crime. In 2020, President Castro negotiated the
lifting of US trade embargos in return for the
release of political dissidents and the placement of
United Nations human rights observers within
Cuba.
In 2021, President Castro died of heart failure;
General Baliese, during the resulting political

tumult, forcibly seized power under the pretense of

enforcing the Cuban constitution and expelled the
United Nations observers from Cuba. In response,
the United States restored its trade embargos,
leading to massive protests in Havana. In 2022, the
Cuban National Assembly elected General Baliese
as President, legitimizing his rule; European Union
member nations were quick to recognize President
Baliese, calling on him to restore order and hold
new elections within two years. In 2023, President
Baliese declared Cuba dedicated to the mission of
the Latin American Union of Nations and advocated
for the election of President Chavez of Venezuela
as the first leader of the Union. In 2024, President
Baliese held national elections and won a narrow
election against reform candidate Pablo Estevan, a
labor reformist and former ally of President Raul
Castro.
In 2025, the United States granted Cuba favored
trading status and lifted her trade embargos, a
move lauded by LAUN President Jimenez. In 2026,
along with Barbados, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica,
and Panama, Cuba signed onto the newly drafted
North America Free Trade Agreement; President
Baliese cited the new agreement as indicative of
the Cuban commitment to democracy and a
continuing role in LAUN and the North American
collective. In 2027, China, in response to the rising
Cuban debt and weakening ties with the
communist state, called in its development loans
and demanded repayment from the island country;
Cuba appealed to the LAUN and the International
Court of Justice by citing unfair trade and loaning
practices, leading President Bolivar of Argentina to
negotiate a final resolution in February of 2028. In
the same year, President Baliese announced new
spending programs for the Cuban military and
national guard, highlighting the evolving violence in
Colombia as evidence of her need of a stronger
armed defense. In 2029, Cuba joined the rest of the
LAUN in recognizing Palestine, using the
announcement to also call for increased
investment and microloan funding to impoverished
nations in the Caribbean. In 2030, Hurricanes
Isidore and Kendra ravaged the Cuban coastal
infrastructure, collapsing bridges, roads and vital
utilities; President Baliese called on LAUN and the
United States for emergency aid, resulting in the
largest rebuilding and reconstruction effort to date
in northern Latin America. In 2031, the plane
carrying the Cuban national baseball team crashed
on its way to the World Games in China; Cuban
Foreign Minister Sanchez accused China of

sabotaging the Cuban aircraft, leading the Cuban

delegation to walk on UN Security Council
deliberations for the month of July during the
rotation of China as President of the Council.

In 2032, President Baliese was reelected by large

margins, leading him to declare for himself a
mandate for military expansion and aggressive
anti-Chinese policies in both trade and UN
negotiations. In the same year, Baliese committed
1,000 Cuban peacebuilders to anti-trafficking
efforts along the Venezuelan-Colombian border. As
the year 2033 opens, the military and economic
strength of Cuba is burgeoning as the island nation
seeks to assert itself as an important and
contributive member of the Latin American Union
of Nations, symbolized by the election of President
Baliese as President of the LAUN for the new year.

Indonesia
In 2015, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
announced a new poverty initiative aimed at
alleviating the worst of Indonesias poverty crisis.
Later that year, a terrorist bombing in Bali killed
203 people, including thirteen Americans believed
to have been targeted in the attack; the bombing
led to an increased Indonesian-American
partnership in fighting terrorism in Indonesia,
including an increase in US funds towards
improving Indonesias anti-terrorism infrastructure
and programs.
In 2016, President Yudhoyono banned travel
between Indonesia and Central America, citing the
new virulent H1N1 viral outbreak as a potential
regional disaster. Despite attempts to quarantine
Indonesia from the epidemic, the flu hit the islands
in 2017, ravaging the poorest of Indonesias
communities with a mortality rate in the high
twenties. President Yudhoyonos administration

suffered in the subsequent elections, losing the

presidency to former President Megawati
Sukarnoputri. President Sukarnoputri redoubled
her governments efforts at fighting poverty and
disease, doubling the budget for healthcare and
disease prevention. Indonesia recognized Chechnya
as an independent state in 2019. In the same year,
President Sukarnoputri sought additional foreign
aid from the EU and US for anti-terrorism efforts,
largely characterized by rural education and
poverty reduction efforts on the islands.
In 2020, Indonesia followed Chinas example in
failing to ratify the Beijing Protocol, citing her need
to develop industry and expand economic
opportunity instead of advancing clean air
initiatives. In 2021, President Sukarnoputris
administration banned unionization and workers
strikes, declaring that individual rights cannot
triumph over the governments anti-poverty (and
pro-industry) programs. The year 2022 saw the
revitalization of Indonesias economy after the
2018 collapse, leading to the easy electoral victory
of the Indonesia Democratic Party Struggle (IDPS) and the election of President Wahid. President
Wahid attended the 2024 Cairo Climate Conference
as an advocate of developing industrial economies,
committing Indonesia to reducing emissions in a
process of industrial gradualism. In 2027, President
Wahid condemned the Security Council resolution
declaring climate change to be a security issue,
declaring that war on climate change puts a strain
on the poorest nations of the global community. An
industrial plant explosion in 2029 forced the Wahid
administration to pass industrial safety regulations
at the same time that labor rights movements
succeeded in achieving limited union rights in
larger cities across the islands. In the same year,
Indonesia recognized the state of Palestine and
advocated for increased World Bank and IMF loans
to the impoverished state in addition to organizing
a large bloc of Asian nations to support the
admission of Palestine to the United Nations.

sovereign state and called for its membership in

the United Nations. Later that year, Prime Minister
Maliki strengthened the electrical utility
infrastructure of Iraq.

In 2031, Indonesia condemned the US missile

defense shield as a provocative defense measure.
Later that year, Indonesia decried the invasion of
Cambodia and demanded an immediate
withdrawal by the United States. Indonesia was
elected to serve a two-year term in the Security
Council in 2032, a recognition of her leadership in
Southeast Asia and her willingness to rebuke
Western nations in the face of perceived
interventional overreaching. Following the nuclear
attacks in Israel and Iran, Indonesia stressed the
importance of securing Palestinian security amid
national tensions between the two belligerent
nations. As the year 2033 opens, Indonesia
prepares to take her seat on the Security Council as
a representative of both Southeast Asian nations
and of the industrializing community, adding her
voice to the global clamor over nuclear
responsibility and national security.
Iraq
In 2015, Prime Minister Jalal Talabani condemned
the Iranian announcement of its nuclear weapons
capabilities and called for additional Security
Council sanctions against the country. In 2016, Iraq
called for additional UN peacekeeping deployment
in Lebanon and reparations to be made by Israel
for civilian losses resulting from their bombing
campaign. In 2017, Prime Minister Maliki is
reelected by popular vote in the largest voter
turnout in the democratic history of the nation.
In the same year, Iraq condemned the attack on
the US by Al-Qaeda and pledged to increase its
efforts at rooting out extremism and terrorism
within its borders. In 2018, Iraq defaulted on its
development loans as the world economy
collapsed, driving Prime Minister Maliki to secure
investment from the United States and the United
Kingdom to cover crucial restructuring programs in
central Iraq. In 2019, Iraq recognized Chechnya as a

In 2020, a series of domestic bombings hit

Baghdad, shaking the confidence of the public in
the ability of their elected government to ensure
their security. In 2021, Iraq signed new oil contracts
with American and British firms, prompting China,
Russia and France to allege corruption in the
bidding process and favoritism towards American
interests. In 2022, Prime Minister Maliki
condemned Iran for its lack of security over its
nuclear material, recommending for the UN
Security Council to take prompt action to secure
Iranian nuclear material and dismantle its nuclear
infrastructure.
In 2023, Prime Minister Maliki secured additional
development loans from the United States,
securing his popularity and increasing his
diplomatic prestige in the region. In 2024, Iraq
declined to attend the Cairo Climate Conference,
citing her need to increase oil production and
develop the basic public utilities as more pressing
public issues than the state of environmental
degradation in the state. In 2025, elections result in
the reelection of the Islamic Dawa Party and the
selection of Barham Salih as Prime Minister. Later
that same year, Prime Minister Salih condemned
the invasion of Kazakhstan during his speech to the
General Assembly, demanding that the Kazakh
people be able to dictate the terms on which they
control, produce and sell their oil.

In 2026, Prime Minister Salih announced new oil

contracts with India and Egypt, expanding regional
influence of Iraq and her diplomatic ties with
central Asia. In 2027, Iraq condemned the Security
Council declaration that global warming constitutes
a global security threat, citing the growing
economy in Iraq as the most important force for
fighting security threats, contrary to environmental
concerns. In 2028, Iraq praised the leadership of
the US in the Congo and the efforts of the African
Union in aiding to achieve regional stability around
the Congo. In 2029, Iraq condemned the attacks by
Hamas against Israel and proposed Syrian and
Lebanese officials responsible for sponsoring
Hamas terrorism be sent to the ICC for trial.
In 2030, the government of Prime Minister Salih
was reelected by large margins, cementing their
Parliamentary gains and increasing their electoral
base by nearly 30 percent. In 2031, Prime Minister
Salih announced the interest of Iraq in opening
space for the US to construct a Middle Eastern
installment of their SENTINEL program, sparking
condemnation from her regional neighbors and
protests by opposition leaders in Parliament. In
2032, Iraq urged the United Nations to intervene in
the Middle Eastern nuclear crises, demanding,
should the UN not act, that the Clinton Doctrine be
applied for intervening in Tehran. As the year 2033
opens, Iraq stands as a staunch proponent of
military intervention in Iran and Israel, its oil
production booming and its influence in the Middle
East propelled by its new seat on the Security
Council.
Japan
In 2015, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned
Israel and Iran for their proliferation of nuclear
weapons technology and joined with Brazil in
calling for a new United Nations treaty on
international disarmament and nuclear
proliferation. In 2016, Prime Minister Abe
increased domestic investment in the electronic
media market and further committed Japanese
industry to higher standards for capital investment
and regulation. In 2017, Japan sponsored Security
Council reform measures in the General Assembly
but failed to garner adequate support for its
referendum on reform.
In 2018, Japan condemned the Chinese invasion of
the DPRK and called for their immediate
withdrawal from North Korea. In the same year,
the Japanese economy plummeted, leading to riots
in Okinawa and Sapporo. In 2019, Japan recognized

Chechnya and offered loan assistance for the

restructuring and rebuilding of their local
infrastructure and utility systems. The next year,
2020, saw the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) gain
seats in Parliament and the re-election of Prime
Minister Hatoyama.
In 2021, Japan called on Germany to restructure its
dignitary protection detail in the wake of the
assassination of the UN Secretary-General; later
that year, Japan successfully lobbied for the
election of Luis Giampietri of Peru as the next
Secretary-General. In 2022, Prime Minister
Hatoyama lauded South Korea for its commitment
to medical investment and urged his Parliament to
focus additional funding into Japans medical
futures.

In 2023, a massive earthquake hit Honshu, resulting

in widespread destruction and massive fires
throughout Tokyo. In 2024, Prime Minister
Hatoyama attended the Cairo Climate Conference,
advocating for additional industrial loans to
developing nations throughout Asia and Africa. In
2025, Prime Minister Hatoyama announced
increased Japanese investment in robotics and
spatial technology, maintaining the dominance of
Japan in technological futures.
In 2026, Prime Minister Hatoyama condemned
both Russia and China before the General Assembly
for their invasion of Kazakhstan and called on the
global community to denounce the imperialist
regimes and pressure them to withdrawal from the
Kazakh oil fields. In 2027, Japan echoed the
Security Council declaration of global warming as a
threat to global security and proposed the G-8
increase its investment in the green and alternative
energy of developing nations, particularly in
regions plagued by terrorism and regional warfare.
In 2028, a sarin gas attack by Aum Shinrikyo
resulted in the death of Prime Minister Hatoyama

and his family, leading to the election of Prime

Minister Makoto Hirata.
In 2029, Japan calls on the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) to recognize Palestine and
help support the new state in rebuilding its
damaged infrastructure, stressing the need to
alleviate the impoverished conditions that might
cultivate terrorism and extremism in the Islamic
state. In 2030, following the Chinese invasion of
Taiwan, Japan called on the United Nations to send
in peacekeepers and election monitors for Taiwan;
Prime Minister Hirata, mediating between China
and the United States, negotiated new elections in
Taiwan and the withdrawal of the Chinese military
from Taiwan.
In 2031, the United States constructed one of its
SENTINEL installations on the island of Hokkaido,
prompting protests in Beijing. In 2032, Japan
assisted the American intervention in Cambodia
with material supplies and funds for transportation,
calling on the Security Council to assist with the
deployment of UN peacekeepers. As the year 2033
opens, Japan stands as a strong proponent of UN
involvement in Cambodia and a comprehensive
Security Council resolution on the Middle East
crises.
Kenya
In 2010, President Mwai Kibaki worked with Prime
Minister Raila Odinga to reorganize their coalition
government with the goal of incorporating more of
the diverse tribes in Kenya into the democratic
fold. In 2016, President Kibaki was investigated and
found guilty of corruptive dealings with President
Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan; upon his resignation from
office, Prime Minister Odinga became President. In
2017, the Kikuyu people of Kenya rose up in
support of the incarcerated President Kibaki and
demanded his release from prison; Odinga,
rejecting claims of new exonerating evidence,
refused to pardon Kibaki.
In 2018, a massive earthquake rocked the Kenya
infrastructure, resulting in massive power outages,
water shortages, property destruction, and the loss
of more than six hundred lives. For the next
fourteen months, Kenya worked to rebuild the
worst of the disaster damage in the Rift Valley,
coordinating efforts with Australia, the United
States, and the International Committee of the Red
Cross to bring medicine, doctors, seeds, plants, and
vital food supplies to the region. In 2020, Australian
scientists discovered a large deposit of terbium ore,
later to become one of the vital export resources

from Kenya to the US for use in her space

programs.

In 2021, Somalia violated Kenyan sovereignty by

tapping into nearby water resources and citing the
dire drought as reason for unprecedented military
incursions. The UN Security Council urged military
restraint and pressured the World Bank to help
bring emergency water resources and funding
programs to the region.
In 2022, the United Kingdom negotiated for the use
of northern Kenyan territory in US and European
anti-terrorism training exercises, helping to
facilitate stronger European Union ties to the
African nation. The year 2023 saw the formation of
a series of multi-lateral trade agreements between
Kenya and several European nations, helping to
bolster her faltering economy and aid the nation in
securing additional IMF loans for revamping her
southern infrastructure. In 2025, President Jogingja
Maatha, a member of the Agikuyu tribe, was
elected in a historic victory for the progressive
Kenyan left. Following the Russian Security Council
veto in 2026, Kenya urged the African Union to step
up its peacebuilding force in the region, asking for
the deployment of an additional 12,000 troops. In
2027, terbium mining hit its peak in the Rift Valley,
greatly boosting Kenyan revenue and allowing her
to expand existing water projects to secure her
long-term viable water resources in the north and
east.
In 2029, Russia demanded that Kenya dismantle
the Western military training facilities along her
northern frontier and publicly denounced Western
military imperialism in Africa. President Maatha,
rebuffing Russia, announced plans by Kenya to
continue accepting infrastructure aid in exchange
for land leases throughout the northern states. In
2030, President Maatha announced a series of
trade cooperatives with regional African allies,
focused on promoting regional unity and rebuilding

diplomatic relationships following the Horn of

Africa crisis almost a decade earlier. In 2031,
President Maatha allowed the US and UK
intelligence services to construct a series of
holding camps near their northern military
installations, utilized as temporary prisons for
terrorist suspects apprehended from nearby Chad,
Sudan and the Arabian peninsula.
In 2032, Kenya successfully won the support of her
regional neighbors in her bid for a seat on the UN
Security Council as a representative of central
Africa; her seat on the Council was seen as an
important acknowledgment of the importance of
both developing African societies and the role
third-world democracies play in the anti-terrorist
campaigns of Africa and the Middle East. As the
year 2033 opens, Kenya stands ready to negotiate
permanent military installations in her north and
new regional partnerships with Somalia and Chad,
while the nation is also positioned to act as an
arbitrator between the developed West and the
developing Third World.

Turkey
In 2015, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
condemned Israel and Iran for their dangerous
proliferation of nuclear weapons technology and
called on both to immediately disarm. In 2016,
Turkey condemned Israel for their attacks on
Lebanon and sent peacekeeping troops as part of
the UN force in Lebanon. After the 2017 election, in
which the conservative Justice and Development
Party (AKP) increased its seats in Parliament,
Islamic extremist factions in Ankara staged a series
of bombings in the capital, declaring the
government to be a Western puppet regime and an
affront to Islam.

In 2018, Prime Minister Erdogan declared a

national emergency as the H1N1 virus spread
through northwest Turkey, upsetting industry as
the fall of the global economy crashed the Turkish
economy. In 2019, three Turkish immigrant
laborers were killed in a violent hate crime in Nice,
France; Turkey called on the French President to
crack down on xenophobia in France and further
demanded for the European Union to act to curtail
racist violence in the Industrial West.
In 2020, Turkey expelled the Greek Orthodox
Patriarch from Istanbul, citing his incitation of
revolt and anti-government rhetoric as dangerous
to the stability of the nation. In 2021, Prime
Minister Erdogan announced the reopening of
theological schools throughout Turkey and allowed
the Patriarch to return to Istanbul as Turkey
attempted to rebuild its reputation with the
European Union and solidify its candidacy for
member statehood. In 2022, Turkey joined the
Security Council as a rotating member, voting to
sanction Iran for its sponsoring of terrorism. In the
same year, Turkey recognized the Greek Cypriot
Republic of Cyprus as the sole authority on the
island of Cyprus, strengthening its candidacy for EU
membership.
In 2024, Turkey attended the Cairo Climate
Conference, aligning itself with the rest of the
European Union in calling for higher standards and
dedicating itself to reducing industrial emissions by
more than 50 percent within thirty years. In 2025,
Turkey reaffirmed its commitment to green energy
and renewable energy sources, bringing its
environmental policy in line with EU standards. In
2026, the Republican Peoples Party (CHP) won a
strong electoral victory, leading to the election of
Yaln Topu as Prime Minister of Turkey.
In 2027, the European Union admitted Turkey to
the organization, an event marked by widespread
celebration and ribaldry throughout the nation. In
the same year, Prime Minister Topu declared that
the Security Council resolution declaring global
warming to be a global security threat was a call to
action for Europe and her allies, leading him to
propose a new climate conference in Ankara during
a speech to the General Assembly. In 2028, Prime
Minister Topu announced his support of the US
intervention in the Congo and his support of the
UN-AU mandate in the country, calling on the UN
to increase its funding for the mission.
In 2029, Turkey offered to mediate between Syria,
Lebanon and Israel following the Hamas attacks,
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a ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal. In 2030, Turkey

dropped its ban on the wearing of headscarves in
government and school buildings.
In 2031, Prime Minister Topu announced the
construction of a US SENTINEL installation outside
the city of Izmir, a project condemned by Russia
and China but supported by NATO and the
European Union. In 2032, Turkey proposed sending
NATO troops to aid in the US Cambodian
intervention; even though the proposition failed to
materialize troops, Turkey succeeded in getting
NATO material supplies dedicated to the US
intervention. In the same year, Turkey sent
humanitarian aid to Tehran and Jerusalem, offering
to aid NGO transport within the region. As the year
2033 opens, Turkey stands poised as an important
intermediary between the Western and Islamic
blocs, mediating between ideology and politics.
Ukraine
In 2015, President Viktor Yanukovych surprisingly
won reelection despite rising unemployment and a
stalling economy. Yanukovych threw his support
behind Israels attacks on Lebanese Hezbollah in
2016, subsequently refusing Lebanese or Syrian
nationals entrance into the Ukraine. One year later,
a six-month anti-terrorism investigation culminated
in the arrest of a ten-member Al-Qaeda cell within
the Womens Special Forces in Odessa. Suspected
of participating in the nuclear attack on Los
Angeles, the cell is extradited to American
jurisdiction in Augsburg, Germany. President
Yanukovych met with President Clinton in 2018 to
discuss a military aid package for the Ukraine,
ostensibly including the installation of a US Sentinel
relay station for the Eastern European region.
In 2019, the Ukraine recognized Chechnya as a
sovereign state and further sponsored a General
Assembly resolution for Chechnyas inclusion
within the United Nations. In 2020, Ukrainian
research scientists announce success in cloning
three canine subjects and replicating a functioning
cetacean brain, considered a serious advancement
towards human cloning. This year also saw the
election of Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov as
Ukraines president. In 2021, Turchynov announced
the Ukraine would aid Horn of Africa nations with
water, corn, wheat, and soybeans, genetically
altered for use in the arid climate. The following
year witnessed an attempt on the Presidents life
during his tour of the Horn of Africa relief sites, the
first in a series of violent attacks against him.

In 2024, Ukrainian students staged a nationwide

hunger strike against Russian nuclear weapons and
energy proliferation, specifically citing Venezuela
and Iran, evoking the history of Chernobyl and its
Eastern European fallout. During the following
year, Turchynov was reelected while he firmly
called for NATO support in Kazakhstan after its
presidents assassination. In late 2025 and early
2026, a mutated H1N1 virus took hold of Rih and
Kerson. It would have broken out into a national
pandemic if Ukraines NATO allies had not
intervened.

In 2027, Ukrainian drilling teams in Yalta discovered

oil wells extending beneath the Black Sea. Russia
laid claim to oil deposits beneath the sea and
threatened the use of military action to secure its
holdings. In 2028, Russia, claiming Ukrainian theft
of vital state resources, mobilized troops and
crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border, taking hold
of a drilling facility near the Black Sea. Russian
military forces were present in south-eastern
Ukraine for more than a year as President
Oleksandr Turchynov refused to capitulate to
Russian demands. After a 16-month occupation,
President Gawel of France negotiated a peaceful
resolution in conjunction with NATO lending aid for
energy resource exploration in Russia. In 2030,
Prime Minister Chekamo was elected President on
the promise that he would work for the expansion
of Ukraines energy exploration in the Black Sea
and the funding of new programs of energy
independence, modeled after existing British
systems. In 2031, the United States installed the
first of three relay systems to be built throughout
the Ukraine, prompting Russian protests and
various scattered revolts throughout the Middle
East. In 2032, Ukraine demanded that the Security
Council denounce the nuclear attacks in the Middle
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dismantling of all Iranian nuclear facilities, civilian

and military alike. As the year 2033 opens, Ukraine
demands the use of military force to dismantle the
nuclear capabilities and facilities of any nation not
in compliance with the IAEA safeguards, a stance
potentially at odds with their support of Israel
shortly after their most recent attack.

Venezuela
In 2015, President Nicols Maduro condemned
Israel and Iran for their proliferation of nuclear
weapons and joined Brazil and Germany in calling
for a new treaty on nuclear proliferation. In 2016,
shortly before the discovery of new oil fields in the
Canadian north, President Maduro secured a series
of oil contracts with President Obama, a sign of the
budding friendship between the two American
nations. In the same year, Venezuela shut down its
land borders and enforced martial law, citing
attempts to keep the H1N1 mutated strain from
proliferating within Venezuela. In 2017, President
Maduro declared Venezuela to be in mourning
after the terrorist attacks in Los Angeles, calling on
all Latin American nations to stand in solidarity
with their northern brother.
The next year, 2018, saw the collapse of the
Venezuelan economy in tandem with the global
economy, although the oil rich state was able to
recover far quicker than her materially-poorer
neighbors. In 2019, Venezuela took a strong leading
role in the establishment of the Latin American
Trade Association; despite protests from Colombia
and Argentina, President Maduro was elected as
the first president of the Association. Following the
failure of the Beijing Climate Conference, President
Maduro announced in 2020 the commitment by
Venezuela to alternative energy and climate
change solutions, articulating a need for Western
nations to invest in developing nation
infrastructures for the production of viable
alternatives. In 2021, President Maduro cracked
down on industrial pollution and environmentally
reckless corporate practices, committing Venezuela
to new levels of green awareness. In 2022, conflicts
with the Colombian drug trade erupted in border
violence, causing President Maduro to mobilize
military forces to the border region; military raids
on drug cartel holdings would continue for the next
three years.

In 2023, President Maduro announced the

formation of the Latin American Union of Nations
(LAUN), a daughter organization born from the
Latin American Trade Association and one focused
on not only promoting economic but also cultural
exchange between the nations of Latin America.
Later that same year, President Maduro, was
diagnosed with cancer and resigned his presidency
in favor of his successor, President Carlos Himenez.
In 2024, President Himenez opened discussions
with Russia in hopes of securing nuclear weapons
technology for the Latin state; after the
negotiations were leaked, President Himenez was
called on by the LAUN to end its nuclear programs
and agenda. Shortly thereafter, General Nuanez led
a coup detat in Caracas, deposing and arresting
President Himenez. In 2025, Nuanez, under
pressure from other Latin American states and her
Western allies, hosted free elections in which
President Raul Aranguren rose to power after
Nuanez voluntarily abdicated from rule.
In 2027, President Aranguren lobbied and
succeeded in persuading President Rosello of
Mexico to join the LAUN, building a foundation for
bridging the North American Free Trade Agreement
and the trade policies of the Latin American Free
Trade Association. In 2028, after President Usilia of
Colombia was assassinated amid his war against
rampant drug violence, President Aranguren
announced a LAUN mandate to end the
international drug trade in Latin America,
committing Venezuelan forces and resources to the
new Colombian, President Jimenez.
In 2029, President Aranguren, politically secured by
his resounding reelection landslide, announced the
humanitarian imperative to recognize Palestine as
a national state in order to secure for her crucial
infrastructure and rebuilding loans from the World
Bank and International Monetary Fund. In 2030,
President Aranguren negotiated a final settlement
between Argentina and the United Kingdom over
the Falkland Islands, releasing the territory back to
Argentina in the year 2040. In United States for
interfering in Taiwanese elections, citing the bloody
history of the Central Intelligence Agency in Latin
America and further called on the United States to
disband the spy agency.
In 2031, Venezuela was elected as the LAUN
representative to the Berlin Nuclear Summit,
where President Aranguren lobbied for decreased
proliferation and stressed the economic
importance of disarmament. In 2032, President
Aranguren was elected again as the representative

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for LAUN as emissary to the Paris Conference,

where he joined with NATO and the United States
in trying to forge a peaceful resolution after the
explosions in Israel and Iran. As the year 2033
opens, Venezuela stands as a strong voice for
Western and Latin American economic concerns
over new nuclear proliferation and further has
forged working relationships with the United States
and NATO in preparation for possible intervention
in the Middle East.
Viet Nam
In 2015, Viet Nam was the only Security Council
member to abstain from the sanctions vote on
both Israel and Iran. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan
Dung was assassinated during the 2016 Miss
Universe Pageant, hosted in Nha Trang. Deputy
Prime Minister Pham Gia Khim was appointed the
following week, saving the country from what was
expected to be a vicious and drawn-out fight for
succession. Six months after the execution of the
convicted assassins, documents surfaced in
neighboring Cambodia in the residents of two
Vietnamese nationals connecting the two men to
the Khim family and indicating the new Prime
Minister in the assassination. Outcry in the
international community forced Khim to resign,
and Viet Nam descended into five years of political
turmoil.
By 2018, the one-party system in Viet Nam formally
split into the Communist Party of Viet Nam and the
Socialist Peoples Party, headed by Nguyen Sinh
Hng and Nguyen Thien Nhn, respectively. When
it appeared that the Socialist Peoples Party under
Nhn had secured support from all major regional
leaders in the north in early 2019, the Communist
Party under Hng relocated its base of operations
to the long politically-barren Ho Chi Minh City in
southern Viet Nam. Over the next year, the
message of Hng evolved from pro-southern
interests to a bona fide independence movement.
In the spirit of independence, the government
under Hng recognized Chechnya, and the
government under Nhn turned to Russia for
support.
Extensive violence was avoided by the death of
Hng and his two chief advisers in a traffic accident
in late 2019. By early 2020, Nhn and his Socialist
Peoples Party had executed its hard-line Stalinist
doctrine and its mandated purge of all Hng
supporters in formal office. At the same time, Nhn
stood by his southern comrades and rejected the
Beijing accord.

Over the next ten years, Viet Nam underwent both

a Maoist cultural revolution and streamlined and
expanded its telecommunications and electronics
industry, abandoning its strengths as a clothes and
rice exporter and finally eclipsing Japan and Korea
as the largest producer in both industries within a
year after President Clinton was forced to lift tariffs
as a re-election campaign promise in 2025. The
government under Nhn had been cultivating an
alliance with both China and Russia, but the Kazakh
crisis forced Nhn to pick sides. Though ideological
similarities inclined him initially toward Russia,
Chinese military mobilization in the south and
potential loss of the largest market in the world for
Japanese cell phones forced Nhn to side with
China. In the early 2020s, Viet Nam saw a
steepening decline in its male population as
genetically purified sperm became readily available
and affordable, and the small hands and diverse
abilities of women to multi-task made them more
desirable employees in the electronics and
telecommunications industries. The renamed
Secretary Nhn, known to the people as Bc Nhn
or Uncle Nhn, has repeatedly denied
accusations that government officials at the local
level are encouraging mothers not to waste
community resources on male infants. This
apparently wide-spread infanticide can only be
topped by the outlawing of poverty in Viet Nam in
2027: all citizens who do not contribute a quota
amount set by district each quarter can be
incarcerated and forced to make up lacking income
in the form of hard labor. Citizens are still expected
to make quota while incarcerated.
In 2030, a Vietnamese telecommunications officer
was the first to intercept information that the CIA
might be behind the Taiwanese elections, and this
information was exchanged with their southern
comrades for exclusive access to all Chinese civilian

markets and military electronics and

communications contracts, of which Viet Nam
already boasted approximately 80 percent. The
Nhn government read the 2031 invasion of the US
into Cambodia as an unbridled capitalistic violation
of Cambodian sovereignty and the Asian sphere of
influence, calling on its longtime economic and
political ally China to counter the western
aggressor.
The decision made by China in 2032 to join the US
in a joint task force was taken as a personal affront
by the aging Nhn, who immediately cut trade
relations with China, resulting in a 20 percent
reduction of the otherwise powerfully performing
economy in Viet Nam over the course of three
months, abetted only by increased sales to Indian
and Indonesian markets. China threatened Viet
Nam with military repercussions for divulgence of
Chinese state secrets to which Vietnamese industry
may have been privy while fulfilling Chinese
contracts. The ailing Nhn announced that his niece
Tang Tuyet Nhn would succeed him, and she did
so without political obstacle when he passed away
in late 2032. As 2033 opens, the Madame Secretary
Nhn must decide whether to continue the policy
set by her uncle of retracting from China, and if so,
where Viet Nam will look to for not only markets
but sociopolitical support in a world more and
more decidedly hostile to the Stalinist system that
Viet Nam still clings to since the Second
Reunification.

Bloc Positions
The following is a summary of various interrelations
and systems of dependency critical to the
formation and maintenance of relationships
between member nations on the Security Council.

European Union
The four members of the European Union on the
Council, which are France, Turkey, Ukraine, and the
United Kingdom, , are politically similar in
approaches to foreign policy, economically
interdependent and with staunch allies in their
approach to resolution formation. While France
and the United Kingdom maintain the strongest
connection to North America, Ukraine retains
strong economic and humanitarian ties to the
African continent and Turkey is the strongest link of
the European Union to the Muslim world, serving
as an important intermediary on the Council. While
the European Union remains united in its drive

towards nuclear nonproliferation and

disarmament, economic aid to developing nations
and a commitment to statesmanship over military
force, the Union is divided on the larger issue of
climate change and alternative energy: whereas
the United Kingdom and France are dedicated to
reducing their carbon footprint, Ukraine and
Turkey are more sensitive to the short-term
detrimental impact of alternative energy
commitments.

Latin American Union of Nations

The four members of the Latin American Union of
Nations (LAUN) on the Council Brazil, Venezuela,
Cuba and Chile enjoy a growing economic
interdependence and a system of peacekeeping
vital to maintaining order along its tumultuous
international borders. While Venezuela has often
served as emissary of the LAUN to international
conferences on climate change and global security
threats, Brazil maintains the strongest diplomatic
and economic relationships with the Permanent
Five and Continuous Five; furthermore, while Chile
serves as an important intermediary for intra-LAUN
disputes, particularly in regards to peacekeeping
operations, Cuba is the strongest and most vocal
advocate in the LAUN for developing nations in
need of international developmental assistance
and diplomatic power within the Security Council.
While the LAUN remains united on the issues of
nuclear disarmament and combating international
terrorism and the drug trade, the LAUN is divided
on a number of significant issues. Cuba and Chile
support a gradualist approach concerning the
timeline of pressing immediate alternative energy
solutions on developing nations. And regarding
which source of international power is the most
important to court in pursuing international peace
in the face of crisis, Brazil supports the Security
Council, Chile and Venezuela encourage the use of
regional organizations, and Cuba believes in the
power of individual member states.

African Union
The three members of the African Union (AU) on
the Council Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya
exhibit an African nationalism and
interdependence that should maintain their
diplomatic relationships in the face of crisis.
Whereas South Africa enjoys the closest cultural,
economic and diplomatic ties to the West, Nigeria
enjoys the popular support of the African
community as its role as continuous representative

and regional economic power and Kenya maintains

powerful military agreements with the United
States, United Kingdom and China. While the group
is often united behind environmental policy in
terms of its approach to gradualism and deference
to economic development, the AU diverges in the
approach to negotiations on nuclear disarmament
and nuclear crises, with South Africa and Nigeria
stressing diplomatic solutions and Kenya willing to
entertain military force.

Asia
The five Asian nations on the Security Council
China, India, Japan, Indonesia and Vietnam are
united by regional issues but rarely by approach to
foreign policy outside of the continent. China is the
most influential in terms of military and economic
strength, though its weakened diplomatic ties to
South America and Russia call into question its
ability to be an honest broker on the Security
Council. India has the closest ties of the group to
the Middle East, often siding against China and
Russia on issues of petroleum development. Japan
enjoys the closest economic and diplomatic ties to
the West, including continued military ties to the
United States. Indonesia is the staunchest advocate
of economic reform for developing nations and an
ally of Palestine in its reconstruction efforts. The
telecommunications industry in Viet Nam is one of
the strongest in Asia, cementing its economic
viability and importance in the development of
missile defense communications technology. While
the Asian nations are united in terms of regional
development, the group diverges widely on serious
foreign policy items, including the environment and
nuclear proliferation.

Questions for a Delegation to Consider

Nuclear Concerns
What obstacles does the Security Council
face in attempting to deal with the nuclear
attacks on Jerusalem and Tehran?
What issues of national sovereignty are
critical to consider, and to what degree
must respect for that sovereignty outweigh
international security concerns as they
relate to nuclear proliferation in this
context?
When and to what extent is military force a
necessary component of a solution to the
crisis?

Absent military force, what other measures

can the Security Council consider as parts
of a Security Council resolution?

Societal Security
What are less immediate threats to
international peace and security, such as
global warming, energy, nuclear
proliferation, and more?
To what extent is the Council empowered
to deal with these issues?
How critical is a Security Council resolution
on this threat to initiating global action
towards a real and viable solution or
program of initiatives?

Closing Remarks
It is my sincere hope that this guide serves as an
illuminating view into the complex political
entanglement in which the Security Council finds
itself in January 2033. Not only is the knowledge of
the policies of your particular nation vital to
performing your function as a delegation, but
ignorance of the wider global history can only
impair our negotiations. Keeping in mind the
historical contexts of all Member Nations of the
Security Council is critical in properly negotiating
and forming comprehensive resolutions.
Furthermore, I warn the reserved delegate that he
or she not only disrupts the cohesion of our
Council, but through his or her silence threatens to
dissolve in passivity the tentative peace on which
we now lightly tread. Think broadly, write boldly,
and be diligent in your preparation as you explore
the founding, the history, and the zeitgeist of 2033.

Crisis Committees
What are Crisis Committees?
Crisis Committees are specialized groups at SWCHSMUN that spend most of their time dealing with
real-time events that require immediate attention and action. These crises range from terrorist
attacks to natural disasters to corruption within a certain organization. Common considerations of
crisis committees include: understanding the crisis and its implications, informing (or not informing)
the press and public, undertaking immediate damage control, reacting to the actions of other groups,
and preventing future crises.
Simulation Overview
Parliamentary Procedure Specific to Crisis Committees
The same parliamentary procedures used for General Assemblies and Special Committees
apply to Crisis Committees as well. However, Crisis Committees (such as the CDC) tend to be more
informal than other committees, that is, they require a limited use of parliamentary procedure. They
are often times more unstructured, and the flow of the committee is heavily dependent on the
discretion of the chair. The chair will make his/her procedural preferences clear at the start of the first
committee session. There may be a speakers list, yet most committees do without one. There is often
no official setting of the agenda, as debate tends to flow between topics and is determined by the
pertinent crisis at hand. In general, discussion occurs through moderated caucuses in which the chair
calls upon delegates to speak. Delegates motion for moderated caucuses of a specified length and
speaking time and on a specified topic. Many issues may be discussed concurrently and crises
introduced by the crisis staff may interrupt discussion. Occasionally, unmoderated caucuses
(motioned for by a delegate) are held in which formal debate is suspended and delegates speak at will
in groups of their choosing. In voting, a motion for an unmoderated caucus takes precedence over a
motion for a moderated caucus. Often, motions are simply passed without voting if there are no
competing motions. Action is taken through directives, and there are generally no working papers or
resolutions, unless the chair so desires. Notes are used to communicate between delegates while the
committee proceeds. They are often used to work with delegates of similar viewpoints to coordinate
actions. Questions can also be sent to the chair (or crisis staff) in a note.

Directives and Notes

Directives

In order to carry out any action during committee, a directive must be sent by an individual, a group
of individuals, or the committee as a whole. If it is not on behalf of the entire committee, then the
delegate(s) can choose to make the directive private and it will not be revealed to the whole
committee. If the chair deems necessary, the directive may need to be introduced by a requisite
number of writers. To pass a directive on behalf of the whole committee, a simple majority vote is
required. The chair will hold a vote as each directive is introduced.
There are three types of directives Action Orders, Communiqus, and Press Releases.
Action orders are used to direct troops, agencies, individuals, etc. to take an action that
is within the authority of the committee. An individual may only send an action order if it is within his
powers. A communiqu is used to communicate with foreign governments, or
individuals outside the committee. A press release is used to reveal information to the public.

Examples of Directives
Action Order
Direct Allied forces to invade Normandy, France on June 6th. Paratroopers shall be
dropped behind enemy lines on June 4th. Landings shall take place at Utah, Omaha,
Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches.
-The Allies
Communiqu
To the Emperor of Japan:
We demand an immediate, unconditional surrender by all Japanese forces within 48
hours, or we shall be forced to unleash heretofore unimaginable devastation upon your
cities.
- The Allies
Press Release
Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly
and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Examples of Notes
To a member of the same committee
[Address Section on outside of Note]
To: Franklin D. Roosevelt
From: Winston Churchill
[Message on inside of Note]
We ask that you work with us to increase intelligence efforts directed against our so-called
allies, the Soviets, so that we will not be surprised by any actions they take after the war.
- Winston Churchill

To chair or crisis staff

[Address Section on outside of Note]
To: Chair/Crisis
From: Winston Churchill
[Message on inside of Note]
What is the current disposition of British forces in the Middle East?
- Winston Churchill
*Since the Futuristic Security Council is set in the year 2033, the events taking place in committee
are taking place 20 years in advance of all of the other committees at SWCHSMUN, hence, notes
may not be sent from FSC to any other committees.

An Outline of Typical Crisis Committee Flow

A moderated caucus takes place with delegates outlining their position.
A delegate motions for a moderated caucus on a specified topic of a specified length with a
specified speaking time.
Delegates discuss actions to take regarding that topic through the moderated caucus and
through notes.
Delegates submit directives to the chair to take an action and motion to introduce the
directive.
Discussion on the directives will proceed through the current moderated caucus and
amendments may be proposed and voted on.
A delegate will motion to vote on a directive and the directive is either passed or rejected.
A crisis will occur, oftentimes in the middle of debate. The crisis staff will introduce new
information or developments through news articles, videos, intelligence reports, etc.
Discussion will shift informally or through a new moderated caucus to discuss this
development.

Endnotes
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<http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml>.
2 Membership of the Security Council, Welcome to the United Nations: Its Your World, 13 Sept. 2009
<http://www.un.org/sc/members.asp>.
3 Charter of the United Nations: Chapter VII: Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the
Peace and Acts of Aggression, Welcome to the United Nations: Its Your World, 13 Sept. 2009
<http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter7.shtml>.
4 United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, United Nations, 13 Sept. 2009
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5 Counter-Terrorism Committee, Welcome to the United Nations: Its Your World, 13 Sept. 2009
<http://www.un.org/sc/ctc/>.
6 1540 Committee - Home, Welcome to the United Nations: Its Your World, 14 Sept. 2009
<http://www.un.org/sc/1540/>.
7 United Nations Security Council Sanctions Committees, Welcome to the United Nations: Its Your World, 13
Sept. 2009 <http://www.un.org/sc/committees/>.
8 Report - Strengthening the United Nations, Welcome to the United Nations: Its Your World, 13 Sept. 2009
<http://www.un.org/largerfreedom/chap5.htm>.
9 ReformtheUN.org Uniting for Consensus Group to Introduce Resolution on Security Council Enlargement in
General Assembly, ReformtheUN.org Tracking Developments - Ensuring Transparency and Accountability, 13
Sept. 2009 <http://www.reformtheun.org/index.php/eupdate/1232>.

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*This FSC Background Guide is based largely on a similar background guide that was used at the Harvard
National Model UN (HNMUN) conference in 2008. It has undergone serious revisions since its usage in 2008 to
reflect changes that have occurred in the world in the intervening five years.