Model UN summit ends in Dhaka

Bangladesh’s students have staged an UN conference in Dhaka and discussed issues of national and international interest.

It was just like the UN annual assembly that held every year in Sep in New York where head of states discuss different issues in different sessions and pass resolutions for future actions.
 
Some 571 students from 50 schools and colleges gathered at the Adamjee Cantonment College and acted as representatives of the UN member states.
 
They were divided into 10 committees and discussed national and international issues such as women and children rights violation in Syria, international migration and its effect on world economy.
 
Those committees also prepared draft resolutions, and passed those in the plenary session like the genuine UN assembly.
 

The United Nations Youth and Students Association of Bangladesh (UNYSAB) organised this four-day Bangladesh Model United Nations that ended on Saturday.

Themed on the “role of youths in community development”, this exercise was to raise awareness among the students and extract their views on the global issues.

The UN Information Centre in Dhaka helped them in this regard.

Ten participants, one from each committee, have been awarded as the best delegates.

Another 20 participants were conferred special award for “outstanding performance and best position paper”, said a statement.

State Minister of Power and Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid was the chief guest at the closing ceremony.

Foreign ministry’s Director UN wing Faiyaz Murshid Kazi, Officer-in-Charge of UN information centre M Moniruzzaman, and Chairman of the Department of Women and Gender Studies of the Dhaka University Syed Shaikh Imtiaz were also present, among others.