Welcome to the first Assembly of Model United Nations Security Council Mafia (MUNSCM). The 15 members comprise of the 5 permanent members and 10 members serving 2-year terms. The 10 non-permanent members are those that will be serving in 2004.
A time of great crisis is upon us, delegates. Rumours of nuclear weapons proliferation explicitly against numerous security council resolutions are rampant. As the highest committee and only decision-making body in the UN, it is your responsibility to deal with the crisis.
This much is known about the crisis:
[1] THREE Security Council Member Nations have formed a secret coalition, an axis of evil.
[2] Every night, the axis of evil will launch a nuclear strike against a country, potentially destroying it.
[3] Every day, the Security Council must pass a resolution directing (or forbidding) a sanctioned nuclear attack upon a member nation, destroying it. It must then adjourn for the day, at which time the attack will be launched.
[4] UN Procedures must be followed at all times.
[5] Obey Mafiascum's offcial rules at all times, except where explicitly contradicted here.
UN Procedures:
SECTION I - RESOLUTIONS
1. The Security Council is the only body of the UN with the authority to enforce resolutions it passes. Thus, any resolution passed becomes law, and its clauses must be followed explicitly. Failure to comply will result in sanctions as determined by the Secuity Council.
2. Resolutions may contain any amount of preamble, which cannot contain any operative clauses.
3. Resolutions must contain at least 1 operative clause, and may contain as many distinct operative clauses as required.
4. Operative Clauses should begin with a verb, in the present tense, which may be anything from "suggest" to "requires".
5. Resolutions may be submitted at any time by ONE member by PM, and will be added to the end of the agenda. The resolution will be listed on the agenda only by title. The suggested time to work on major resolutions is at night.
6. When the Council opens debate on a resolution, the submitting member will post the entirety of the resolution (this is the first time the resolution is officially presented in whole). The submitter may NOT speak in favour of the resolution at this time. Instead, they must wait for their turn on the speaker's list. The speaker's list is not opened until either a) I open it or b) a seconder speaks in favour of the resolution.
7. The Speaker's List will be opened. To get on the speakers list, post in thread or through PM. To submit ammendments, you must be on the speakers list.
8. Immediately after the resolution is posted, a member may announce they are the "seconder" of the resolution. They must support the resolution to be the seconder. They should now speak in favour of the resolution.
9. Any other member may now ask "Point of Information directed towards the speaker:" followed by a question. You do not need to wait for an answer before you or another member state may ask another question, but there will be a limit to the number of questions that may be asked of a speaker.
10. The Speaker should answer each question in turn, without digressing excessively. When there are no more questions, or the question limit is reached, the speaker should announce they are stepping down.
11. The next speaker should then speak in favour or opposed or about the resolution in general, OR propose any ammendments. Repeat steps 9 and 10 for each speaker, until the speaker's list is exhausted, or debate is closed. Member Nations may be on the speaker's list only once at a time, once they have spoken they may get back on.
11. a) If the speaker wishes to propose ammendments, they may do so, and should speak in favour of their ammendments. Ammendments may be any combination of: adding clauses, rewording clauses, striking clauses. Once they have presented the ammendments and spoken in favour of their ammendments, they must step down.
11. b) Immediately following the presentation of an ammendment, ONE member nations may announce they are speaking in favour of the ammendment (and then speak), and TWO member nations may announce they are speaking opposed to the ammendment (and then speak).
11. c) Once the THREE members speak of the ammendments, we go to voting procedures for the ammendment.
11. d) Upon completion of voting, return to the speaker's list for the next speaker on the resolution.
12. Once debate is closed, we go to voting procedures on the resolution.
13. Upon completion of voting, debate on the resolution is completed, and the next item on the agenda is considered.
SECTION II - VOTING FOR AMMENDMENTS/RESOLUTIONS
1. Once in voting procedures, member nations may immediately vote "in favour", "opposed", or "abstain". Members may not discuss during voting, and may not change their votes UNLESS...
2. At any time before voting is completed, a member may bring a "point of order". If this Point of Order is related to voting and is passed, all votes prior to it being suggested are nullified.
3. Ammendments and Resolutions are considered passed if a majority of members NOT ABSTAINING vote in favour. That is, those abstaining give their votes to the side with more votes. For instance, 6 in favour, 5 opposed and 4 abstensions passes.
4. If any member nation with the power of veto votes against a resolution or ammendment it fails, UNLESS that resolution or ammendment explcitly names that nation and only that nation.
SECTION III - POINTS OF ORDER
1. At any time, a member may bring forth a point of order. Discussion should immediately stop on the current resolution, and member nations should immediately vote "in favour" or "opposed" to the motion, noting there are no abstensions.
This is being removed from the rules:
HOWEVER, voting should not begin if the point of order is on the non-trivial list
2. Trivial points of order, upon which voting should immediately begin, include:
- motions to begin the session (at the beginning of the day).
- motions to open debate of the FIRST item on the agenda.
- motions to extend or limit the number of points of information per speaker.
3. Trivial points of order WHICH PERTIAN TO VOTING, upon which voting should immediately begin, include:
- motions to separate the clauses (into 2 or more groups, upon which the SC will vote separately, which must be specified in the motion)
- motions to vote clause by clause
4. NON-TRIVIAL points of order, in which the motioner should speak in favour and ONE member nation should speak opposed to are:
- motions to ammend the Agenda (the manner in which must be specified)
- motions to Shelve Debate (stop debating the current resolution and put it at the end of the Agenda)
- motions to Caucus (go to informal debate, that is, removes all procedures, for a specified amount of time)
- motions to Censure (put a posting ban on an unruly delegate).
- motions to Close Debate (vote on resolution)
- motions to Adjourn (ends the day. Note that the council may not adjourn unless a resolution has passed requiring or prohibiting a nuclear attack. It also needn't adjourn immediately after passing this resolution, but it may only attack one country per day).
- motions to Reconsider (re-open debate on a resolution that has already been voted on.) You must garner 2/3 support to pass a motion to reconsider.
5. Other Points of Order may come up as the delegates see fit.
SECTION IV - POINTS OF INFORMATION DIRECTED TOWARDS THE CHAIR.
1. At any time a member nations may direct a question at the chair using this motion. The chair will answer the question at their earliest convenience.
SECTION V - SPECIAL TEAMS
1. The Security Council has 2 Special Teams: weapons inspectors and mobile anti-ballistic missile shields.
2. Every day, a resolution MAY be passed which allows the weapons inspectors to enter one country, and give a report to ONE country. The inspection takes place at night.
3. Every day, a resolution MAY be passed which allows the deployment of the MABM in one country. A country which has MABM deployed in it may not be attacked until the next day.
