The members of the Lahore School of Economics Association of Debaters spent the overlapping week of 2009 and 2010 at the sixth annual Lahore University of Management Sciences Model United Nations, held at the LUMS campus from the 30th of December 2009 to the 3rd of January 2010. The Lahore School of Economics was participated in the simulation conference as members of two teams, and the student delegates represented Burkina Faso, France, Iran, Sri Lanka and the World Bank in ten committees of the United Nations, its subsidiary bodies, and other global organizations.
The student delegates deliberated enthusiastically in the ten committee sessions, and spent their evenings, with their regional and International ‘blocs’, drafting extensive resolutions on the topics being debated upon in their respective committees. Despite immense competition at the conference, owing to LUMUN being the largest simulation of the United Nations in the country, the Lahore School of Economics performed exceptionally well and bagged eight Outstanding Diplomacy Awards at the conference.
From the Lahore School of Economics delegations, Abubakr Omar Hayat, Affaan Khan Sherwani, Aitzaz Rehman Sheikh, Anum Mehak Malik, Anum Zahoor, Muhammad Owais Rana, Umair Mahmood and Umar Akram were bestowed the Outstanding Diplomacy Awards at LUMUN ’09.