Sidra Rana
The Lahore School of Economics Association of Debaters (LSEAD) hosted the Fourth Annual Intra Lahore School Model United Nations on May 17, 2009. Students from different batches of the Lahore School of Economics assumed the roles of ambassadors representing member states of the United Nations in the one-day simulation conference. The students delegates also participated in the Disarmament Committee and the Human Rights Council, discussing contemporary issues of global importance. At the end of the third committee session, the delegates in each of the two committees successfully passed resolutions on the reduction of military budgets, and the curbing of arbitrary criminal detention; the topics of their respective committees.
The one-day conference ended with an elaborate closing ceremony, comprising of short speeches, giving away of awards honoring the students showing outstanding diplomacy in each of the two committees, and the distribution of certificates of participation to the participating students. 