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Voting prosedure at Historical Security Council at the third session

BBC-Jongwoo Lee

On the third session of the second day, delegates at Historical Security Council were voting for their resolution papers.

After failing several times of passing resolution papers, the delegates went in five minute unmoderated caucus and seven minute moderated caucus before the voting procedure. "Send peacekeeping troops to Nepal to watch over the conflict and tension in China" was one of the ideas that delegates passionately discussed on, and Brazil, Nepal, and Canada were sponsors that supported this idea. U.S, on the other hand, mentioned that it does not support China, but to maintain peace, the U.S should not intervene in China’s reform. And Columbia mentioned that embargoes are justified, so it will continue working with China for peace.

About the government killing many of protesters during the reform, delegates had different opinions. While USSR said that China being condemned is excessive, Brazil showed that China being condemned is indeed not excessive. China has not recognized its people who showed their opinions; rather they massacred them. China said that the intervention of U.K couldn't be accepted that China did not attack in order to massacre people; it had to do that in order to proceed in its social reform. Therefore, international organizations should not intervene in China’s regulation.

After the moderated caucus was over, there were updates from BBC those on protests of Chinese citizens on May 25^th Tiananmen Square.

On the picture shown in the article provided by BBC, delegates debated whether it is necessary to have embargo and world intervention in China’s reform. Yugoslavia mentioned that BBC is a British government broadcasting, it is not reliable to get information about China, while the British embargoed China. China reputed by saying that people in the Tiananmen Square does not necessarily represent the rest of people in China.

After Columbia mentioned that students are the leaders of the future. Their views become the majority of people’s views in the future. U.S supported Columbia that it said students are the future, however, China stated that protesters do not represent China and those people are very valuable in representing. China, however, disagreed with Columbia and the U.S that China’s government is going to do what seems right. They tried to reach out. Also, the Chinese government holds a referendum on whether or not the current regime is legitimate--whether or not the protesters are justified.

Delegates did not come to a consensus during the third session at Historical Security Council, but they supported their ideas based on the situations each country was.