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The Second Intra Lahore School Model United Nations (MUN) Conference Concludes
April 30, 2007

By Javed Qureshi

Three days Second Intra Lahore School MUN Conference concluded on April 28, 2007.

Dr. Azam Chaudhry, Dean of Economics gave away the prizes and awards to Ayesha Mirza “delegate” from “Israel”, Amber Nasir Ahmad from “Pakistan”, Shahram Niazi from “France”, Meneeb Ur Rehman from “Iran”, Zohaib Khan from “USA”, Rafay Iqbal, Anam Baig and Ameera Safdar from “India” and Maira Riaz “delegate” from “China”.

The Conference consisted of six sessions per committee, spanning over a period of three days.

Three Committees were assigned to students. World Trade Orgaization was chaired by Wassi Ur Rehman and Sohaib Shahid. The issues discussed were: Minimum Labor Standards - How can countries tackle forced labor, child labor and sexual discrimination? Do we tend to give too much leverage to minorities, women and the chronically poor?

Disarmament and International Security Committee was chaired by Omer Imitiaz and Sana Zainab Ali and the delegate from “Iran” debated about their point of view on Conflict Resolution.

United Nation Development Program Commette was chaired by Aized and Zain Tanveer and the topic of discussion was “the world's water and sanitation crisis needed a Global Action Plan. The delegates from “Iran”, “Sri Lanka” and “Pakistan” raised different sanitation issues of their countries.