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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Draft Resolution 2

Context: This resolution was written by my brother for a junior conference. He ended up winning '2nd Best Delegate', ensuring that he won at the same conference two years in a row.

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Resolution to Counter the Rising Tension that is Arising Around the South China Sea

 

Committee: The United Nations Security Council

Agenda: Addressing the Rising Tensions and the Current Situation in the South China Sea

Author: The People’s Republic of China

Sponsors: The Republic of South Africa, The French Republic

Signatories: The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, The Federative Republic of Brazil, The Republic of Ecuador

 

The United Security Council,

 

Noting with regret the inherent violations of important United Nations documents which are central to the spirit of the United Nations which include (but are not restricted to):

1)     The United Nations Charter and the resolutions passed by the United Nations Convention on the Sea (UNCLOS),

 

2)     Various resolutions produced by (most importantly) the United Nations Security Council, and by smaller conglomerates such as the DISEC, ECOSOC and the UNHRC,

Alarmed by the human casualties and the broken diplomatic ties that have resulted in the:

1)     Conflicts between Taiwan and China,

2)     Territorial disputes over waters and islands between China and the ASEAN nations that border the South China Sea,

Affirming the fact that China does own Taiwan and the whole region of the South China Sea, through historical rights and policies like the “Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone” and the “One China” policy that has been signed by various signatories like the United States of America that have made China already the owner of these regions,

Bearing in mind the resource-rich areas of the South China Sea and Taiwan that have been a major financial centre for trade in the past centuries and the modern age of today, which has seen nations like China and Indonesia rise to become popular tourist destinations and financial hubs, in which this century will make these countries world powers,

Recognising the necessity of maintaining peace between the East and the West and the necessity of solving this incremental problem wisely and in a way that makes all parties involved in this security threat agree with the solutions dealt with in this resolution,

1)     Calls upon all the nations that surround the South China Sea to:

 

a)     Reduce the number of battleships, destroyers, and spy aeroplanes in the South China Sea with the intention of:

i)                Reducing the fear of merchants and suppliers who pass through the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait of being shot down by warships or military planes by accident in the unfortunate event of misrepresentation of marine vessels as belligerent acts of war,

ii)              Increasing the volume of trade conducted in the South China Sea to improve the economies of the ASEAN nations,

iii)             Showing to the whole world that the countries bordering the South China Sea are at peace with each other and that they are secure to not put tight military control in agitation against one another but making travelling through the waters a safe and economically prosperous experience for the people and/or cargo that shall pass through the South China Sea,

b)     Show solidarity with each nation by conducting military drills and state visits between each other nation which will show that:

 

i)                Each nation involved in the military drills believes in the common fraternal network that binds the South China Sea together and each is trustworthy to the other in the common faith that their various treaties will be upheld with stringent implementation and will work together to defend the South China sea and their nations wherein,

 

ii)              Subsequent state visits (after the implementation of this resolution) will incite a more friendly kindling of (and productive involvement in) peaceful discussions that discuss issues of state with the olive branch in hand rather than on the battlefield, which will promote a more peaceful and long-lasting solution to the tensions within the various countries of the South China Sea,

 

2)     Requests the nations in the UNSC to organise and ratify treaties and committees concerning the tensions in the South China Sea, a few brought forward by the delegation of China are:

a)     The “Sino-ASEAN Maritime Security Committee,” a committee dedicated to the sole purpose of:

i)                Giving the leaders of the countries involved in this treaty a platform to point out the different economic and security impacts the tensions in the South China Sea might bring,  

ii)              Encouraging discussion between China and the ASEAN nations of Chinese influence over the South China Sea, which will put forth various other treaties and resolutions to solve this incurring problem,

b)     The “The Sino-ASEAN Normalization Treaty,” which provides an opportunity for the nations of the UNSC to:

 

i)                Create peace between the nations bordering the South China Sea by ensuring all the countries reduce their defences at the South China Sea,

ii)              Allow the present claims of the countries for their islands in the South China Sea to remain so that there will be no more disputes along the lines of whether a certain island group belongs to a certain country,

iii)             Make the present claims over the territorial waters of the countries involved in this treaty official, making the countries remove their defences over the territorial waters of their nation that overlaps the territorial waters of the other nation, making that overlapping space a hub for countries to trade freely, making it global waters and territory for the whole world,

 

3)      Has resolved to do the following measures to solve the issue between Taiwan and China by:

a)     Stating that China is the rightful owner of the region of Taiwan, and China will attempt to get Taiwan as a part of it by the following methods:

i)                Diplomatically by holding talks with Taiwan in various committees set up by China like the “Taiwan – China Normalization Committee,” which seeks, diplomatically to encourage Taiwan to join China,

ii)              By military intimidation, which may involve military aggression by marine force and by air, if Taiwan does not comply,  

b)     Proposing the following incentives to Taiwan if it joins China which are:

i)                China will contribute an amount of 1/8th of China’s GDP annually, which will promote Taiwan to the top 10 GDPs in the world,

ii)              Major Taiwanese companies like Foxconn, Evergreen and TSMC, will get 1 billion USD from China for infrastructural development, and productivity of the corporation on the whole,

iii)             Taiwan will be made a semi-autonomous region, which will be allowed to have its identity, but will not have formal diplomatic ties with other nations, which all is clearly outlined in the “One China” policy,

iv)             China’s Politburo standing committee of 8 members will include a Taiwanese member in the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, this will highly elevate Taiwan’s political importance and influence in Chinese Politics,

v)               China will have 1/5th of the members of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China be Taiwanese, another attempt to make Taiwan influential in Chinese politics,

vi)             China will extend its Belt-and-Road initiative to Taiwan if it allows itself to join China,

vii)           China will renounce its claim on the 9-dash and will redraw its territorial waters to cater to the requirements of the rest of the nations that border the South China Sea with China’s borders being done considering the EEZ of China and Taiwan, which will be done on the condition that every nation in the ASEAN agrees to the One-China policy with all of its terms and conditions,

4)     Further resolves to present solutions before the international community that will show that China and the nations bordering the South China Sea are resilient and can make peace with each other in the following ways:

a)     Forming a protocol rival to the UNCLOS called the South China Sea Dispute Resolution Protocol (SCSDRP) which seeks to regulate the economic and military activity in the South China Sea, which will result in world peace, in the following ways:

i)                To redefine the laws of the UNCLOS and divide the South China Sea into parts that will belong to each country around the South China Sea and international waters, in which each division will be made upon the following criteria:

1)     The geographical extent of the country,

2)     The number of stations or islands in the South China Sea claimed by that country,

3)     The GDP of that country, considering their debt also,

4)     Their present claims that each country has made on the South China Sea, including the ones made by themselves and the ones made by the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone,

ii)              To remove all military aggression that is currently present in that area, except a small band of about 10 to 20 soldiers just to keep guard of any invaders of their part of the South China Sea,

iii)             To give out licenses to people who want to travel through the territorial waters of another country, which will people who want to travel through another country’s territorial waters safe from:

1)     Being captured by the task force implemented by that country on charges of illegal travelling through those waters,

2)     Being a risk of getting incarcerated due to charges of illegal fishing or any other activity in another country’s territorial waters,   

iv)             To make legislation in the SCSDRP to command officers in the South China Sea not to capsize any vessel that is found intruding in their part of the South China Sea, but to fine or arrest them based on the following criteria:

1)     Finding out whether they have a licence that was printed by the consulate of the country whose waters they are travelling through in the country from which they are travelling to see if they are entering the other country’s territorial waters illegally or not,

2)     Finding out, by inquiry and by what is found on their vessel, whether they are smugglers, fishing vessels, are travelling to the country whose territorial waters they are passing through for diplomatic, business or tourist reasons or are spies for another country,

 

v)               Forming a task force commissioned by the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces to oversee the situation and ensure all of the legislation in the protocol is followed exactly as planned and in a peaceful way, as this force will abate:

1)     Minor onsite skirmishes can develop while the countries are redrawing the territorial borders and the respective countries move their forces to their territorial waters,

2)     Major diplomatic crises can occur due to major disagreements between countries while the protocol discusses how much of the South China Sea each country will get,

b)     Forming a rival committee to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization called the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), which will solve the tensions between the nations around the South China Sea and other incurring problems among the ASEAN nations in the following ways:

i)                Discussing how the SCSDRP redrawing of the South China Sea can cater to all the economic and military requirements of all the nations involved in the SCSDRP,

ii)              Discussing and coming up with even more solutions to abate the situation between China and Taiwan,

iii)             Discussing the economic and security implications of the tensions between the nations around the South China Sea,

iv)             Coming out with solutions for the security and economic issues with the tensions between the nations around the South China Sea,

 

5)     Emphasizing the need to abate the situation between the nations bordering the South China Sea by:

a)     Forming a tribunal called the “Hague Commission on the South China Sea Resources (HC-SCSR)” that will perform as an example to other nations on how China can be a reliable peacemaker, foremost in the South China Sea, in the following ways:

i)                It will ration out how much of the resources like coal, fish, and natural gas each nation around the South China Sea and the international community will get to ensure that there will be no conflict between the nations involved in this tribunal when the topic of resource-sharing comes up in any diplomatic discussion between those nations,

ii)              It will be a completely independent body chaired by the ICJ and the UNSC without any of the permanent 5 nations in the UNSC being involved in this tribunal to ensure the following:

1)     The least amount of corruption and bias when the ICJ and the UNSC ration the volume of resources that each nation around the South China Sea and the international community get,

2)     The fair division of resources without the necessity to have diplomatic conflicts when it is being discussed,

b)     Forming a protocol called the “United Nations Protocol on the Dispute over Landmasses in the South China Sea (UNP-DLSCS)” that will address the issue of who owns which island groups or banks like the Pratas, Spratly and Paracel Islands and the Macclesfield Bank, and will solve the disputes over the question of who owns the islands in the following ways:

i)                Consider the various factors that will have to be involved when deciding whether one island group or bank belongs to which country, the factors being:

1)     The geographical extent of the country,

2)     The number of island groups or banks in the South China Sea claimed by that country,

3)     The GDP of that country, considering their debt also,

4)     Their present claims that each country has made on the South China Sea, including the ones made by themselves and the ones made by the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone,

ii)              Ensuring the support of every party involved in this island group and bank dispute by:

1)     Ensuring that a UN Peacekeeping force is deployed in this controversial arena to ensure peace in this controversial area,

2)    Installing various surveillance planes from the ASEAN nations and the to check whether the procedures happening in the South China Sea are valid according to the UNP-DLSCS, and whether peace is observed when the division of the islands are done peaceably,

6)     Resolves to remain actively involved in the international community in this matter of urgency.


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