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Concerns Without Solutions

February 25th, 2011. 12:25am EST
By: Kay

Inter Press Service

The Security Council led to a very slow start yesterday in the conference, beginning the debate with the topic of Combating international terrorism. They had many un-moderated caucuses and all they talked about was the need to raise awareness and having to help the children. The ideas were on the right track but during moderated debate they failed to address how they were planning to meet their goals. Along the way, there were many contradictions, one of which I luckily caught: the Indian delegate made the claim they did not want to help children.  Read along to find more information on that topic.

The strongest factor in the Security Council seems to be Brazil, making relations with all the countries, and being the most concerned about the issues and trying to find actual solutions instead of just saying that the UN needs to raise awareness in third world countries. Brazil has been stressing on the fact that educating children and getting them off the streets is the right direction towards finding a solution to combating international terrorism. The Indian delegate, however, made a controversial statement that educating children about health and safety is not important.  The question is: Should India really be on this committee suggesting ideas?          

The whole world’s focus is mainly on educating children and giving them a better future, because in the end they are the future generation, and educating them will determine the quality of life in the future. Does India not want children in third world countries to have a future or to have brains in that matter? On the other hand China seems to be on the right track of the situation. The delegate of China says that the children deserve the right to speak for themselves and demand a better education.

A lot of ideas have been given but none really addressing the fact on how to resolve this issue. Like the UK was stressing during committee sessions, they need to set deadlines on when they have to achieve all these ideas and resolutions as means to  start change.  All in all after the first day of debating, the UK and I quote says “We haven’t really don’t anything much and haven’t gone to any solutions.”

On a very weird note, South Africa states that “You can’t force Children’s rights, without having women’s rights” We are still unclear on what the delegate really means. But we believe that South Africa needs to get back on track, because those rights have nothing to do with acts of terrorism. More to come on resolutions to the topic on Combating International Terrorism.