Economic and Social (ECOSOC)

COMMITTEE: Economic and Social (ECOSOC) 1

1 Resolution Writing 2 3A resolution consists of ONE, RATHER LONG, but easy to understand !!! sentence 4related to THE ISSUE AND YOUR COUNTRIES BELIEFS ON THE PROBLEMS 5AND THE SOLUTIONS. 6 7Your ideas are then divided into clauses and sub-clauses and resolutions must be 8separated into preambulatory clauses and operative clauses 9 10The Preambulatory Clauses outline what the problem of the issue is and why it is 11important to address. 12 13The Operative Clauses outline what action you think the United Nations should 14take or what attitude it should adopt, in order to provide solutions to the issues. 15 16Each clause, whether preambulatory or operative, begins with a specific word. 17These are outlined in the chart below. 18 19You must choose the word that helps give power and strength to your sentence !!! 20This will help others understand your belief and the extent of the problem. CLAUSES OPERATIVE CLAUSES PREAMBULATORY Acknowledging Having devoted Accepts Strongly Affirming attention Affirms urges Alarmed by Having Approves Suggests Approving examined Asks Supports Aware of Having heard Authorises Trusts Believing Having Calls for Transmits Bearing in mind received Calls upon Urges Confident Having studied Condemns Congratulating Keeping in mind Congratulates Contemplating Noting further Confirms Convinced Noting with Declares Declaring appreciation accordingly Deeply concerned Noting with Deplores Deeply conscious approval Designates Deeply convinced Noting with Encourages Deeply disturbed deep concern Endorses Deeply regretting Noting with Expresses its

2 JMUN 2007 Resolution Writing and Sample COMMITTEE: Economic and Social (ECOSOC) 3 Deploring regret appreciation Desiring Noting with Expresses its Emphasising satisfaction hope Expecting Observing Further invites Expressing its Pointing out Further proclaims appreciation Reaffirming Further Expressing its Realizing recommends satisfaction Recalling Further requests Fulfilling Recognising Further resolves Fully alarmed Referring Hopes Fully aware Reminding Invites Fully believing Seeking Proclaims Further deploring Taking into Proposes Further recalling account Recommends Guided by Taking into Regrets Having adopted consideration Requests Having considered Taking note Resolves Having considered Viewing with Seeks further appreciation Strongly affirms Welcoming Strongly condemns

4 JMUN 2007 Resolution Writing and Sample COMMITTEE: Economic and Social (ECOSOC) 5 21 ISSUE: The question of reducing the technology and information divide between economically more and less developed countries.

SUBMITTED BY: USA CO-SUBMITTED BY:

The General Assembly,

22Fully alarmed, that many people are dying because of the lack of economy, 23technology, and information, 24 25Keeping in mind, that the rich countries have many unwanted, used, or extra things 26that could be still used, 27 28Having heard, that there is a huge gap between more and less developed countries, 29leaving poor countries fell behind with very poor technology and information, 30 31Pointing out that, economically more developed countries such as U.S could take 32the power from the economically less developed small countries such as the 33countries in Africa and some parts of Asia, 34 35Recognizing that, not all the people have same amount of access to information as 36the people in economically well developed countries do; for example in Somalia, 37there are only 200 internet users out of about 8 million people, 38 39Having considered that, many children in less developed countries don’t have an 40opportunity to be educated for future; for example in Niger, the total literacy 41rate for adults is 18% which means the 82% of the population in Niger cannot write 42or read, 43 44Bearing in mind that many orphans in poor countries can’t get any support from the 45country and have to live with any body that can help them or many times by them 46selves; for example in Haiti there is no government to help the poor and it is 47estimated that there are about 7000 street children living in Port-au-Prince, 48sleeping in cemetery and looking for their own food everyday.

6 JMUN 2007 Resolution Writing and Sample COMMITTEE: Economic and Social (ECOSOC) 7 50 1. Encourages, rich countries to take this problem seriously and help the poor 51 countries; 52 53 2. Requests that the economically more developed countries help economically 54 less developed countries by giving away or selling cheaply the extra 55 unwanted stuff that is not longer used in the country or by people in the 56 country, 57 58 3. Further recommends for all the countries to get together as a world to have 59 a better community and help each other; 60 61 4. Asks the United States to provide special funds to help developing less 62 developed countries to get better idea on information and technology; 63 64 5. Hopes, United Nation to help people in technologically and economically less 65 developed countries such as Somalia to get better economic, technology, and 66 information to smaller the gap between the economically more and less 67 developed countries; 68 69 6. Recommends that the economically more developed countries in UN to 70 contribute 0.05% of their GNP to UNICEF so they can have more money to 71 help to give poor kids an opportunity to go to school and study for future; 72 73 7. Suggests that the World Bank help poor countries about $40-50 billion per 74 year in total to improve their economy and the literacy rate by financing the 75 building of schools to support orphans and have a better future with more 76 technology and information. 77 78

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