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Model United Nations
What is MUN• Model United Nations is a 3-day conference similar to the
United Nations in which students participate as delegates to various UN committees.
• Participants research and formulate political positions based on the actual policies of the countries they represent.
• The participants range from middle school students to graduate school students.
• Model United Nations involves researching, public speaking, debating, and writing, often along with critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership skills.
• The official and working language of the conference is English
The MUN gathering
History• The first instances of Model United Nations was the
Model League of Nations Assembly.• The first recorded meeting of a simulation of a Model League
of Nations was run by Harvard University in 1927.• In the 1980s, the United Nations Association of the United
States of America was established to coordinate and track the development of MUNs on a global level.
• The year 2012, there are about 400 MUN conferences worldwide.
• In Greece in the fifteen sessions held since 1998, over 2300 students have participated in MUN.
MUN New York city
Committees • The committees usually consist of the six committees of
the General Assembly: • Social Humanitarian and Cultural Committee• Committee on Disarmament And International security• Special Political and Decolonisation Committee• Commission on Economic and social Development• Commission on Drugs and Crime• Commission on Sustainable Development• Finally there is the SECURITY COUNCIL which consists an
independent committee.
MUN speech
Republic of Korea
THE SELECTION OF THE Candidates• This year our school was chosen to participate in MUN as the
Republic of Korea!• For the selection of the ambassadors which will represent our
school in MUN a committee was set up.• This committee is consisted from mates who have been
ambassadors the previous years.• After a long procedure it was finally decided who will be the
ambassadors for this year.
Ambassadors Security Council: Marianthi Priakou Social Humanitarian and Cultural Committee: Asimina MpotsiCommittee on Disarmament and International Security: Georgina
Aggelou Special Political and Decolonisation Committee: Tatiana
HourvouliadouCommission on Economic and Social Development: Nasia
TsimpouraCommission on Drugs and Crime: Philippos FotopoulosCommission on Sustainable Development: Angelos Vachatoris
Republic of Korea• South Korea officially the Republic of Korea is a country in East Asia,
constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.• It comprises an estimated 50 million residents distributed over
100.000 km2.• The capital and largest city is Seoul, with a population of 10 million.• South Korea is a presidential republic.• It is Asia's fourth largest economy and the world's 15th largest
economy.
south Korea's map
• The European Union (EU) and South Korea are important trading partners, having negotiated a free trade agreement for many years since South Korea was designated as a priority FTA (Free Trade Agreements) partner in 2006.
• The free trade agreement was approved in September 2010, and took effect on July 1, 2011.
• South Korea is the EU's eighth largest trade partner, and the EU has become South Korea's second largest export destination.
• THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!