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 Student
Team to Represent
Kazakhstan at Harvard Model UN
By
Alejandro Gonzalez, Chairman
The New England Center Student Council for
International and Regional Studies at UB will be
representing the Republic of Kazakhstan in the
46th Harvard National Model United Nations at
Cambridge, Massachusetts this month. The
preparation and selection of this group begin in
the Fall semester of 1999 when an essay
competition and a set of interviews determined
the eight most eligible students for the
delegation from UB.
The model UN of Harvard University is the biggest
and most recognized of its kind and includes the
participation of 2000 delegates from a hundred
different schools from America and abroad. Each
college or university represents a country and
the student delegates debate world issues from
the point of view of the country they represent.
Delegates gain insight into the workings of the
United Nations by assuming the roles of UN
representatives and by actively participating in
the resolution of important global issues.
Outstanding teams receive awards.
As preparation for the debates, the UB team
visited the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan in
New York City where they held talks with the
diplomats there. The UB students' presentation
papers were cited as possessing the quality and
veracity of true diplomats and the UN diplomats
requested permission to use the papers as
reference for their position papers during
upcoming international meetings.
The names and nationalities of the delegates are:
Ola Ogunye, from the USA; Ashok Regmi, from
Nepal; Miya Attanassova, from Bulgaria; Bogdan
Stamoran, from Rumania; Zlatin Ivanov, from
Bulgaria; Jee Eun Lee, from Korea; Alejandro
Gonzalez, from Ecuador; and Dinka Vantcheva from
Bulgaria.
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