By Tiffany Sung
Walking into the Youth Assembly, you do not encounter the intensity found in other conference rooms; instead, you experience a friendly atmosphere. The Youth Assembly plays an extremely different role in the Model United Nations. Its participants do not express their ideas through another country’s point of view, but through the outlook of “youth.”This year’s Youth Assembly includes two sections. The Committee on Environment discusses global warming and water pollution, and it aims to make proposals that can allow the public to fully understand the issues. As Chair Penny Soon talked enthusiastically with her partners over the topic, she stated, “Our group’s goal is to raise the public awareness of global warming in Asian countries.” The Committee on Health and Social Development focuses on eradicating common diseases, increasing welfare institutions, and lowering Asia’s poverty rate. Brian Tsang, the Assistant President of the Youth Assembly, has a strong passion towards his job. He believes that “the Youth Assembly is better because [the members] can voice our own ideas.” Tsang even boldly stated that other committee’s resolutions are just “toilet paper” because “no matter how much personal research they do, they won’t be able to know their country as well as real UN delegates.” Unlike other debating committees, delegates of the Youth Assembly do not deliver opening speeches, write out policy statements, and go through intensive debates. They examine a general topic in small groups, share their own perspective, and combine their ideas with others to create an action paper addressing a specific issue. The Youth Assembly President Felicia Liu said, “I chose to work in the Youth Assembly because we represent ourselves and have no restrictions when we express ideas.”Many students decided to join the Youth Assembly because of the concept of “self-representation.” Despite people’s enthusiasm towards Model United Nations, some still feel upset over the fact that even though the resolutions they have worked on months finally passed, they still cannot be taken to the real UN and be put into action. However, the action papers created by the Youth Assembly will actually be sent to THIMUN the Hague and have a chance to be discussed in the official United Nations. For Parco Lee, this is already his second time as a delegate of the Youth Assembly. Lee had once joined the Youth Assembly in BEIMUN, and he enjoys expressing the voice of youth. Although THIMUN-Singapore’s Youth Assembly has just been formed, Parco has faith in it. “THIMUN’s Youth Assembly is new and young,” said Parco, “but looking at the one thousand people in the General Assembly, [Youth Assembly] will definitely get better when more people come and join it.”Next time, instead of representing the delegate of Burkina Faso, perhaps you would like to be the delegate of yourself, express you own belief, and make a real contribution to the global community.
Walking into the Youth Assembly, you do not encounter the intensity found in other conference rooms; instead, you experience a friendly atmosphere. The Youth Assembly plays an extremely different role in the Model United Nations. Its participants do not express their ideas through another country’s point of view, but through the outlook of “youth.”This year’s Youth Assembly includes two sections. The Committee on Environment discusses global warming and water pollution, and it aims to make proposals that can allow the public to fully understand the issues. As Chair Penny Soon talked enthusiastically with her partners over the topic, she stated, “Our group’s goal is to raise the public awareness of global warming in Asian countries.” The Committee on Health and Social Development focuses on eradicating common diseases, increasing welfare institutions, and lowering Asia’s poverty rate. Brian Tsang, the Assistant President of the Youth Assembly, has a strong passion towards his job. He believes that “the Youth Assembly is better because [the members] can voice our own ideas.” Tsang even boldly stated that other committee’s resolutions are just “toilet paper” because “no matter how much personal research they do, they won’t be able to know their country as well as real UN delegates.” Unlike other debating committees, delegates of the Youth Assembly do not deliver opening speeches, write out policy statements, and go through intensive debates. They examine a general topic in small groups, share their own perspective, and combine their ideas with others to create an action paper addressing a specific issue. The Youth Assembly President Felicia Liu said, “I chose to work in the Youth Assembly because we represent ourselves and have no restrictions when we express ideas.”Many students decided to join the Youth Assembly because of the concept of “self-representation.” Despite people’s enthusiasm towards Model United Nations, some still feel upset over the fact that even though the resolutions they have worked on months finally passed, they still cannot be taken to the real UN and be put into action. However, the action papers created by the Youth Assembly will actually be sent to THIMUN the Hague and have a chance to be discussed in the official United Nations. For Parco Lee, this is already his second time as a delegate of the Youth Assembly. Lee had once joined the Youth Assembly in BEIMUN, and he enjoys expressing the voice of youth. Although THIMUN-Singapore’s Youth Assembly has just been formed, Parco has faith in it. “THIMUN’s Youth Assembly is new and young,” said Parco, “but looking at the one thousand people in the General Assembly, [Youth Assembly] will definitely get better when more people come and join it.”Next time, instead of representing the delegate of Burkina Faso, perhaps you would like to be the delegate of yourself, express you own belief, and make a real contribution to the global community.
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