Global Nuclear Disarmament

The Republic of Georgia

Topic: Global Nuclear Disarmament

Delegate: Niti Dharwadkar

Email: nitistar@gmail.com

School: Poolesville High School

Position paper for the General Assembly Plenary

The issue before the General Assembly Plenary is: Global Nuclear Disarmament.

Background

The UN Security Council’s primary responsibility is to maintain international peace and security by establishing international sanctions and authorizing military action. There are fifteen members of the Security Council. Of these members, the five veto-wielding permanent members are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The countries who have made the strongest demands for permanent seats are Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan. Japan and Germany are the UN's second and third largest funders respectively, while Brazil and India are two of the largest contributors of troops to UN-mandated peace-keeping missions.

The UN Security Council commits to Global Nuclear Disarmament. The Security Council adopted the UNSC Resolution 1887, proposed by Barack Obama, president of the United States. This resolution resolves to seek a safer world without nuclear weapons nations and to promote international stability by halting the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons. The security council resolution supports reduction of nuclear arms, prevention of terrorist groups from obtaining bomb-making materials, as well as key nuclear agreements including Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and a follow-on agreement, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Fissile Cut-Off Treaty, the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials. It also strengthens the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which engages peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The resolution “builds on a consensus that all nations have the right to peaceful nuclear energy; that nations with nuclear weapons have the...